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A new collection of poems by the German poet Michael Kruger, At Night, beneath Trees is his second volume of poetry to appear in English. This latest selection, drawn from his 1993 and 1996 collections, marks an important shift in his work; moving away from the deeply philosophical dialogues of his earlier work, Kruger engages here in reflective, lyrical musings on the meaning of existence. Kruger searches for truth in the most ordinary of everyday events. Letters written to friends, a few moments spent looking up at the trees, statements by a television commentator all become occasions for questioning the meaning of things. Pervaded by a peaceful stillness, yet resoundingly powerful, these poems speak of the fear and confusion of living in a chaotic, meaningless world.

"Michael Kruger is an Augustan among modernists. Wry, stylish, elegiac, his writing, while always reverting to Germany's own condition, explores an international cultural terrain, in which we encounter literary attitudes as diverse as those of John Ashbery or Seamus Heaney....His poems erase the difference between self and other, inner and outer, public and private....A remarkable European German poet, with poems such as these, Michael Kruger has clearly earned an international reputation."

Times Literary Supplement, 03/26/1999

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