Poems Format: Paperback

Hermann Hesse; Selected, translated, and with an introduction by James Wright

ISBN 10: 0374526419 / ISBN 13: 9780374526412

Published by MacMillan Publishers, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Poems Format: Paperback
• Publisher: MacMillan Publishers
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374526419
• ISBN 13: 9780374526412
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Few American readers seem to be aware that Hermann Hesse, author of the epic novels Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, among many others, also wrote poetry, the best of which the poet James Wright has translated and included in this book. This is a special volume―filled with short, direct poems about love, death, loneliness, the seasons―that is imbued with some of the imagery and feeling of Hesse's novels but that has a clarity and resonance all its own, a sense of longing for love and for home that is both deceptively simple and deeply moving.

About the Authors

Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) was a German poet and novelist. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. He was the author of numerous works including Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, and Demian.

Poetry collections by James Wright (1927-80) include The Green Wall (1957), which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets award, Saint Judas (1959), The Branch Will Not Break (1963), Shall We Gather at the River (1968), and Two Citizens (1973). Wright was elected a fellow of The Academy of American Poets in 1971, and the following year his Collected Poems received the Pulitzer Prize. He died in New York City in 1980, having served on the English faculties at the University of Minnesota, Macalester College, and Hunter College (CUNY).