Porcelain by Durs Grünbein and translated by Karen Leeder

This is poetry from Germany.

Porcelain by Durs Grünbein translated by Karen Leeder is published by Seagull Books. This is a Book originally written in German. This was published in 2020.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780857427816E12.

With Porcelain, Durs Grünbein enters the English-language poetry shelf through Karen Leeder’s translation from German. The book can be situated through porcelain, fragility, history, and polished damage, though its real life will happen in the reader’s contact with particular lines. A useful review should make room for that uncertainty. I would not promise that every poem will open immediately, and I would not want it to. Some books matter because they give us something complicated to think beside. This one belongs in the translated poetry library because it carries a distinct pressure of poetry connected to Germany: not a report about elsewhere, but a living encounter with another arrangement of sound, memory, and feeling.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

Check out more of the always in-progress translated poetry index here.