Starker Wind über der bleichen Stadt by Jakob van Hoddis and translated by Mitch Cohen

This is poetry from Germany.

Starker Wind über der bleichen Stadt by Jakob van Hoddis translated by Mitch Cohen is published by Palmartpress. This is a Book originally written in German. This was published in 2019.0 and has the ISBN of 9.783962580339E12.

Starker Wind über der bleichen Stadt, by Jakob van Hoddis and translated by Mitch Cohen from German, brings German poetry into English through Jakob van Hoddis’s expressionist wind, pale city, and the apocalyptic weather of early German modernism. 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 wind, city, apocalypse, and the sense that ordinary streets might suddenly split open, 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. Starker Wind über der bleichen Stadt belongs in the translated poetry library because it gives the library a sharp blast of German expressionist instability.

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