Of all that ends by Günter Grass and translated by Breon Mitchell

This is poetry from Germany.

Of all that ends by Günter Grass translated by Breon Mitchell is published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This is a Book originally written in German. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78054478538E12.

Of all that ends, by Günter Grass and translated by Breon Mitchell from German, brings German poetry into English through Günter Grass’s late poems, endings, drawing, and the stubborn act of making marks near the edge of life. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem begins making its own weather. I would read it for ending, image, age, and the rough tenderness of a writer measuring what remains, not as a fixed lesson about a nation, period, or school. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Of all that ends belongs in the translated poetry library because it adds a late-career German work where visual and verbal attention meet.

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