Prayer After the Slaughter : The Great War by Kurt Tucholsky and translated by Peter Appelbaum

This is poetry from Germany.

Prayer After the Slaughter : The Great War by Kurt Tucholsky translated by Peter Appelbaum is published by Berlinica Publishing LLC. This is a Book originally written in German. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781935902287E12.

Prayer After the Slaughter : The Great War, by Kurt Tucholsky and translated by Peter Appelbaum from German, brings German poetry into English through Tucholsky’s postwar anger, anti-militarist prayer, and the bitter music that follows slaughter. 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 war, prayer, satire, and the refusal to let patriotic language beautify violence, 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. Prayer After the Slaughter : The Great War belongs in the translated poetry library because it belongs as a German pacifist intervention into the literature of the Great War.

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