Porcelain - Poem on the Downfall of My CityAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 6 July 2023
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AA book-length cycle of forty-nine poems written over the course of more than a decade that together serve as a lament for Durs GrA¼nbeinâ?Ts hometown, Dresden, which was destroyed in the Allied firebombing of February 1945.A Porcelain is a book-length cycle of forty-nine poems written over the course of more than a decade that together serve as a lament for Durs GrA¼nbeinâ?Ts hometown, Dresden, which was destroyed in the Allied firebombing of February 1945. The book is at once a history and â?odeclaration of loveâ?? to the famed â?oVenice on the Elbe,â?? so catastrophically razed by British bombs; a musical fusion of eyewitness accounts, family memories, and stories, of monuments and relics; the story of the cityâ?Ts destiny as seen through a prism of biographical enigmas, its intimate relation to the â?owhite goldâ?? porcelain that made its fortune and reflections on the power and limits of poetry. Musical, fractured, ironic, and elegiac, Porcelain is controversial, too, in setting itself against what GrA¼nbein calls the â?omythâ?? of the Germans as innocent victims of a war crime. At the same time, it never loses sight of the horror deliberately visited on an unwitting civilian population, nor the devastation that looms so large in the German memory. Published for the first time in English, on the seventy-fifth year anniversary of the firebombing, this edition contains new images, notes, GrA¼nbeinâ?Ts own reflections, and an additional cantoâ?"an extraordinary act of poetic kintsugi for the fractured remains of Dresdenâ?Ts memory. A
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