{"product_id":"grunbein-durs-variationspb","title":"[04\/20\/27] Grünbein, Durs: Variations on No Theme","description":"\u003cp\u003eFarrar, Straus and Giroux, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Michael Hofmann\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: April 20, 2027\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA psychic portrait of post-Wall Germany, from the most important German poet writing today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in Dresden in 1962, Durs Grünbein is the most significant poet to emerge from the former East Germany. Though he is a poet who is not expressly political, his work emerges from a tumultuous Germany, one where the poet confronts time and history head-on and not only in the abstract.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe thirty-nine poems that make up \u003ci\u003eVariations on No Theme\u003c\/i\u003e were initially published in German in 1994. They are unsettling, wry, aggressive, sardonic, and deeply seductive. Not quite sonnets, and not quite recognizable in their formal structure, these poems offer, as Helen Vendler put it, a \"model of disequilibrium.\" From the first words: \"To digress . . . where to?,\" the reader is met with a knowing yet searching intelligence, one that takes the form of a second-person address and brings to life the wrestlings of thought and material reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a brilliant translation by Michael Hofmann, who also provides a new introduction, \u003ci\u003eVariations on No Theme \u003c\/i\u003eis a masterful, enduring psychic portrait of a mind in its time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45361785438231,"sku":"9780374624484","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/91rK0vfc80L._SL1500.jpg?v=1791069923","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/grunbein-durs-variationspb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}