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Durs Grünbein is the author of six previous volumes of poetry and a collection of essays. His work has been awarded many majorGerman literary prizes, including the highest, the Georg Büchner Prize, which he won at age thirty-three. He has lived in Berlin since 1985.
The Diving Bell and the Bristlemouth: The Art of Grünbein's Prose | p. vii |
Preface | p. xix |
Brief Report to an Academy | p. 3 |
Volcano and Poem | p. 7 |
Breaking the Body | p. 12 |
Childhood in the Diorama | p. 22 |
Three Miniatures | p. 32 |
The Age of Deep-Sea Fish | p. 39 |
Darwin's Eyes | p. 47 |
My Babylonish Brain | p. 59 |
To Lord Chandos: A Fax from the Future | p. 72 |
Q as in Quotation | p. 75 |
On the Question of Style | p. 79 |
The Poem and Its Secret | p. 82 |
Why Live Without Writing | p. 92 |
Accented Time | p. 116 |
The Bars of Atlantis | p. 132 |
Madonna and Venus | p. 173 |
One Sunday of Life | p. 186 |
The Vanished Square | p. 193 |
A Little Blue Girl | p. 209 |
The Thinker's Voice | p. 228 |
The Stroke of Apollo | p. 246 |
In the Name of Extremes | p. 259 |
A Tear for Petronius | p. 284 |
Brother Juvenal | p. 300 |
Between Antiquity and X | p. 315 |
Acknowledgments | p. 321 |
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