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Poemtrees. For how hard it is -- A colony of allotments -- Smoke will stir -- The intention is sealed -- Nymphenburg -- Epitaph -- Schattwald in Tyrol -- Remembered triptych of a journey from Brussels -- Life is beautiful -- Matins for G. -- Winter poem -- Lines for an album -- Bleston : a Mancunian cantical. Fête nocturne ; Consensus omnium ; The sound of music ; Lingua mortua ; Perdu dans ces filaments -- Didsbury -- Giulietta's birthday -- Time signal at twelve -- Children's song. |
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School Latin. Votive tablet -- Legacy -- Sarassani -- Day's residue -- Border crosser -- Lay of ill luck -- Memorandum of the divan -- Il ritorno d'Ulisse -- For a Northern reader -- Florean exercise -- Scythian journey -- Saumur, selon Valéry -- L'instruction du roy -- Festifal -- Pneumatological prose -- Comic opera -- Timetable -- Unexplored -- Elizabethan -- Baroque Psalter. |
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Across the land and the water. Cold draught -- Near Crailsheim -- Poor Summer in Franconia -- Solnhofen -- Leaving Bavaria -- Something in my ear -- Panacea -- Mithraic -- Memo -- Barometer reading -- K.'s emigration -- Through Holland in the dark -- Abandoned -- Mölkerbastei -- A galley lies off Helsingborg -- Holkham gap -- Norfolk -- Crossing the water -- Natural history -- Ballad -- Obscure passage -- Poetry for an album -- Eerie effects of the Hell Valley wind on my nerves -- Unidentified flying objects -- The sky at night -- A peaceable kingdom -- Trigonometry of the spheres -- Day return -- New Jersey journey. |
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The year before last. The year before last -- A waltz dream -- Donderdag -- The secrets -- On 9 June 1904 -- Ninety years later -- In Bamberg -- Marienbad elegy -- At the edge -- And always -- How silvery -- Somewhere -- In the sleepless -- Room 645 -- My ICE rail-planner -- One Sunday in Autumn 94 -- Calm November weather -- Unchanged for years -- In the Summer of 1836 -- In Alfermée -- On the eve of -- In the paradise landscape -- Appendix : I remember ; October heat wave. |
| Abstract |
A collection of nearly one hundred poems are centered around the poet's signature themes, including nature, history, wandering, and memory. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Language | Translated from the German. |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| LCCN | 2011025272 |
| ISBN | 9781400068906 (acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 1400068908 (acid-free paper) |
