After Every War
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After Every War

Twentieth-Century Women Poets

Eavan Boland, Eavan Boland

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After Every War

Twentieth-Century Women Poets

Eavan Boland, Eavan Boland

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They are nine women with much in common—all German speaking, all poets, all personal witnesses to the horror and devastation that was World War II. Yet, in this deeply moving collection, each provides a singularly personal glimpse into the effects of war on language, place, poetry, and womanhood. After Every War is a book of translations of women poets living in Europe in the decades before and after World War II: Rose AuslĂ€nder, Elisabeth LanggĂ€sser, Nelly Sachs, Gertrud Kolmar, Else Lasker-SchĂŒler, Ingeborg Bachmann, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Dagmar Nick, and Hilde Domin. Several of the writers are Jewish and, therefore, also witnesses and participants in one of the darkest occasions of human cruelty, the Holocaust. Their poems, as well as those of the other writers, provide a unique biography of the time—but with a difference. These poets see public events through the lens of deep private losses. They chart the small occasions, the bittersweet family ties, the fruit dish on a table, the lost soul arriving at a railway station; in other words, the sheer ordinariness through which cataclysm is experienced, and by which life is cruelly shattered. They reclaim these moments and draw the reader into them.The poems are translated and introduced, with biographical notes on the authors, by renowned Irish poet Eavan Boland. Her interest in the topic is not abstract. As an Irish woman, she has observed the heartbreaking effects of violence on her own country. Her experience has drawn her closer to these nine poets, enabling her to render into English the beautiful, ruminative quality of their work and to present their poems for what they are: documentaries of resilience—of language, of music, and of the human spirit—in the hardest of times.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781400849611
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
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Literature
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ROSE AUSLÄNDER
Originating Volumes
Blinder Sommer. Gedichte. Vienna: Bergland Verlag, 1965.
Am Ende der Zeit
Meine Nachtigall
Im Chagall-Dorf
Mein SchlĂŒssel
36 Gerechte. Hamburg: Hoffman und Campe Verlag, 1967.
Verwundert
Mutterland: Gedichte. Cologne: Braun, 1978.
Mutterland
Noch ist Raum: Gedichte. Duisburg: Gilles & Francke Verlag, 1976.
Damit kein Licht uns liebe
Biographische Notiz
Books by Rose AuslÀnder in German
Der Regenbogen. Poems. Czernowitz: Verlag Literaria, 1939.
Blinder Sommer. Poems. Vienna: Bergland-Verlag, 1965.
36 Gerechte: Gedichte. Hamburg: Hoffman & Campe, 1967.
Ohne Visum. Poems and short prose. DĂŒsseldorf: Sassfras Verlag, 1974.
Andere Zeichen. Poems. Concept-Verlag, DĂŒsseldorf: 1975.
Gesammelte Gedichte. Hugo KĂ€ufer and Berndt Mosblech, eds., Braun, Cologne: 1978.
Gesammelte Werke in acht BĂ€nden. Helmut Braun, ed. Fischer, Frankfurt: 1984–1990.
The Forbidden Tree: Englische Gedichte. Helmut Braun, ed. Fischer, 1995.
Rose AuslÀnder: Materialien zu Leben und Werk. Frankfurt: Fischer (Tb.), 1992.
Wir wohnen in Babylon: Gedichte. Fischer, 1992.
Sources in English
AuslÀnder, Rose. Selected Poems: Rose AuslÀnder: Ewald Osers trans. London: Magazine Editions, 1977.
———. An Ark of Stars: Poems by Rose AuslĂ€nder Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1990.
———. Mother Tongue: Selected Poems. Rose AuslĂ€nder: Jean Boase-Beier and Anthony Vivis trans., London: Arc Books, 1995.
Bower, Kathrin M. Ethics and Remembrance in the Poetry of Nelly Sachs and Rose AuslÀnder: Rochester: Camden House, 2000.
ELISABETH LANGGÄSSER
Originating Volumes
Mithras Lyrik und Prosa. Fischer: Frankfurt am Main 1959. FrĂŒhling 1946
Books by Elisabeth LanggÀsser in German
Der Wendekreis des Lammes. Gedichte Veröffentlichungen Auswahl, 1924).
Die Tierkreisgedichte. 1935.
Das unauslöschliche Siegel. Hamburg: Claassen & Goverts, 1946.
Der Torso. Hamburg: Claassen & Goverts, 1947.
Das Labyrinth: fĂŒnf ErzĂ€hlungen. Hamburg: Claassen & Goverts, 1949.
Proserpina: eine Kindheitsmythe. 1933; reprint, Hamburg: Claassen & Goverts, 1933.
Der Laubmann und die Rose. Hamburg: Claassen & Goverts, 1947.
MĂ€rkische Argonautenfahrt. Hamburg: Claassen & Goverts, 1950.
Sources in English
AuslÀnder, Rose. The Quest. Jane Bannard Greene, trans. New York: Knopf, 1953.
Edvardson, Cordelia. Burned Child Seeks the Fire Joel Agee, trans.: Boston: Beacon Press, 1998.
NELLY SACHS
Originating Volumes
In den Wohnungen des Todes. Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag, 1947.
Wenn ich nur wĂŒsste
Und niemand weiss weiter. Hamburg: Ellermann, 1957.
Kommt einer von ferne
Bereit sind alle LĂ€nder
In der blauen ferne
Flucht und Verwandlung: Gedichte. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1959.
In der Flucht
Fahrt ins Staublose: die Gedichte der Nelly Sachs. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1961.
In diesem Amethyst
Books by Nelly Sachs in German
Legenden und ErzÀhlungen. Berlin: F.W. Mayer, 1921.
In den Wohnungen des Todes. Berlin: Aufbau-Verlag, 1947.
Sternverdunkelung, 1947.
Und niemand weiss weiter. Hamburg: Ellermann, 1957.
Flucht und Verwandlung: Gedichte. Berlin: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1959.
SpÀte Gedichte. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1965.
Gedichte. Frankfurt am Main: Surhkamp, 1977.
Books about Nelly Sachs in German
Dinesen, Ruth. Nelly Sachs. Eine Biographie. (Aus dem DĂ€nischen von Gabriele Gerecke) Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1994.
Falkenstein, Henning. Nelly Sachs. Berlin: Collquium Verlag, 1984.
Sources in English
Bower, Kathrin M. Ethics and Remembrance in the Poetry of Nelly Sachs and Rose AuslÀnder. Rochester: Camden House, 2000.
Celan, Paul. Paul Celan, Nelly Sachs: Correspondence. Christopher Clark trans. Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY: Sheep Meadow Press, 1995.
Sachs, Nelly. O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, including the verse play, Eli. Michael Hamburger, trans. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1967.
———. The Seeker and Other Poems: Ruth Mead and Matthew Mead, trans. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970.
———. Selected Poems 1. Beth Mead and Matthew Mead trans. Los Angeles: Green Integer Books, 2003.
GERTRUD KOLMAR
Originating Volumes
Gertrud Kolmar: Das Lyrishche Werk. Munich: Kosel Verlag, 1960.
Das Opfer
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