Emblems of the Passing World: Poems after Photographs by August Sander - Couverture rigide

Kirsch, Adam

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ISBN 10 : 1590517342 ISBN 13 : 9781590517345

Editeur : Other Press, 2015

Synopsis

August Sander’s photographic portraits of ordinary people in Weimar Germany inspire this uncanny new collection of poems by one of America’s most celebrated writers and critics

Through his portraits of ordinary people—soldiers, housewives, children, peasants, and city dwellers—August Sander, the German photographer whose work chronicled the extreme tensions and transitions of the twentieth century, captured a moment in history whose consequences he himself couldn’t have predicted. Using these photographs as a lens, Adam Kirsch’s poems connect the legacy of the First World War with the turmoil of the Weimar Republic with moving immediacy and meditative insight, and foreshadow the Nazi era. Kirsch writes both urgently and poignantly about these photographs, creating a unique dialogue of word and image that will speak to all readers interested in history, past and present.

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À propos de l?auteur

Adam Kirsch is the author of two collections of poems and several books of poetry criticism. A columnist for Tablet, he also writes for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. He lives in New York City with his wife and son.

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The rain of gifts in which the child has grown

Can be deduced from her small bright medallion,

Her brand-new shoes, her black dress gay with braid,

But most from the instinctive way she’s laid

Her hands contentedly across her lap,

Confident she won’t need to hit or grab

To get the good things life has promised her.

How could she know it’s dangerous to wear

A smile so merry and self-satisfied,

When all her life has been arranged to hide

The possibility of nemesis

And put off the discovery of loss?

Who could rebuke her when she acts as if

She thought she were herself the greatest gift?

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Other Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1590517342
• ISBN 13: 9781590517345
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible