Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of My City Grnbein Durs
A book-length cycle of forty-nine poems written over the course of more than a decade that together serve as a lament for Durs Grnbein's hometown, Dresden, which was destroyed in the Allied…
Specifikacia Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of My City Grnbein Durs
A book-length cycle of forty-nine poems written over the course of more than a decade that together serve as a lament for Durs Grnbein's hometown, Dresden, which was destroyed in the Allied firebombing of February 1945.Porcelain is a book-length cycle of forty-nine poems written over the course of more than a decade that together serve as a lament for Durs Grnbein's hometown, Dresden, which was destroyed in the Allied firebombing of February 1945. The book is at once a history and "declaration of love" to the famed "Venice on the Elbe," so catastrophically razed by British bombs; a musical fusion of eyewitness accounts, family memories, and stories, of monuments and relics; the story of the city's destiny as seen through a prism of biographical enigmas, its intimate relation to the "white gold" porcelain that made its fortune and reflections on the power and limits
The City of Tears
The City of Mirrors
Echoes of the City
People of the City
City of the Beasts