Worlds by Gertrud Kolmar and translated by Philip Kuhn, Ruth von Zimmermann

This is poetry from Germany.

Worlds by Gertrud Kolmar translated by Philip Kuhn, Ruth von Zimmermann is published by Shearsman Books. This is a Book originally written in German. This was published in 2012.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781848611986E12.

Worlds, by Gertrud Kolmar and translated by Philip Kuhn, Ruth von Zimmermann from German, brings German poetry into English through Gertrud Kolmar’s worlds, interior sovereignty, and the power of imagination under historical threat. 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 worlds, womanhood, inwardness, and the private grandeur of a voice that deserved more room, 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. Worlds belongs in the translated poetry library because it belongs as a major German-Jewish poetic presence in translation.

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