Kiosk

by Enzensberger, Hans Magnus; Hamburger, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781852243852
• ISBN10: 1852243856
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-11-01
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd

Summary

The most recent book by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Germany's most important and influential living poet.

Author Biography

Hans Magnus Enzensberger is Germany's most important and influential living poet, a lightning rod in a stormy political and cultural landscape. As poet, critic, essayist, and translator, he has published some thirty volumes including his Selected Poems, published by The Sheep Meadow Press in 1999.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Translator's Disappearing Act	p. xv
Historical Patchwork
Kiosk	p. 3
The War, like	p. 4
Privileged Instructions	p. 5
The Rich	p. 6
Economic Life	p. 7
The Tin Plate	p. 8
An Observation on Shifts in Functional Elites	p. 9
Old Europe	p. 10
Audiosignal of April 14th 1912	p. 11
In Memory of Sir Hiram Maxim (1840-1916)	p. 12
Autumn 1944	p. 14
Early Writings	p. 15
Ode to Stupidity	p. 16
Nice Sunday	p. 17
Flight of Ideas (I)	p. 18
Asphodels	p. 20
Trek	p. 21
Mixed Feelings
Taking Russian Leave	p. 25
His Father's Ghost	p. 26
In Praise of Violence	p. 27
Comrade Bartleby	p. 28
Bird's Eye View	p. 30
A Sort of Revelation	p. 31
On the Algebra of Feelings	p. 32
Polaroid, Dissolving	p. 34
Sit-down Strike	p. 35
Leaving Aside	p. 36
Minimal Programme	p. 37
A Few Idle Lines	p. 38
Rush-hour Traffic	p. 39
Disappointed	p. 40
Et Ego	p. 41
Flight of Ideas (II)	p. 42
Persuasive Talk	p. 44
New Man	p. 45
Diversions Under the Cranium
Self-demolishing Speech Act	p. 49
Balancing Act	p. 50
Bifurcations	p. 51
Neuronic Nexus	p. 52
Under the Skin	p. 53
What the Doctors Say	p. 54
Norwegian Timber	p. 55
More About a Tree	p. 56
Taxonomy	p. 57
On the Problem of Reincarnation	p. 58
Flight of Ideas (III)	p. 60
A	p. 62
Humble-bee, Bumble-bee	p. 64
The Renaissance Specialist	p. 65
Congratulation to a Lady Called Elizabeth	p. 66
Old Medium	p. 67
Paolo di Dono, known as Uccello	p. 68
A Backward Glance at Painting	p. 69
For Karajan and Others	p. 70
In Suspense
Presumption of Innocence	p. 73
Arterial Road	p. 74
Inconspicuous Miracle	p. 75
An Encounter of the Other Kind	p. 76
The Somnambulist Ear	p. 77
Was There Something	p. 78
Clinical Meditation	p. 79
Grace	p. 80
The Visit	p. 81
Osiris	p. 82
A Reproach	p. 83
Addressee Unknown--Retour a l'expediteur	p. 84
Nimbus	p. 85
Flight of Ideas (IV)	p. 86
Of Life After Death	p. 87
The Entombment	p. 88
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