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Your Diamond Dreams Cut Open My Arteries

Poems by Else Lasker-Schüler

By: Else Lasker-Schüler

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Your Diamond Dreams Cut Open My Arteries

Poems by Else Lasker-Schüler

By: Else Lasker-Schüler

Critics have called Else Lasker-Schuler the greatest of all German women poets and one of the finest Jewish poets. This large and representative selection of translations by Robert P. Newton, supplemented by a biographical and critical introduction and a selected bibliography, was the first substantial presentation of her works in English at its original publication in 1982.

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University of North Carolina S

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1469656663

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9781469656663

Three Plays

Dark River, Arthur Aronymus and His Ancestors, and I and I

By: Else Lasker-Schuler

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Three Plays

Dark River, Arthur Aronymus and His Ancestors, and I and I

By: Else Lasker-Schuler

Famous for her poetry and infamous for her bohemian lifestyle, as well as her association with political radicals, Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945) is only now returning to just renown as one of the few women writers within the Expressionist movement of the early twentieth century. These plays--Dark River, Arthur Aronymus and His Ancestors, and I and I--put Lasker-Schüler on a par with Brecht in her day.

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312

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Northwestern University Press

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0810121980

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9780810121980

My Blue Piano

Bilingual Edition

By: Else Lasker-Schüler

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My Blue Piano

Bilingual Edition

By: Else Lasker-Schüler

Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945) was born into an affluent German Jewish family. Following the death of her parents and the dissolution of her marriage, the fledgling poet became notorious in the fashionable cafés of Berlin for appearing in costume as a Persian girl or as an Egyptian boy. Her flamboyance was echoed in her poetry, which combined the sexual with the religious in its exploration of the ecstatic experience. Critics have long dismissed her poetry as decadent in its romantic use of references to moonlight, flowers, and woodland creatures. In his introduction, Haxton addresses such criticism by arguing that what others have termed kitsch and cliché in Lasker-Schüler’s poetry may be understood more fully as a kind of iconoclasm, like that of her Expressionist contemporaries, and as an authentic expression of emotional tenderness. Her poetry also resonates with the cultural moment of Sarah Bernhardt’s gender-bending stage performances and Freud’s sexual interpretations of the subconscious. The poems collected in this bilingual volume represent the full range of Lasker-Schüler’s work, from her earliest poems until her death. Haxton’s translation embraces the poems’ lyrical imagery, remaining faithful to the poet’s vision while also capturing the cadence and rhythms of the poetry.

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148

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Syracuse University Press

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0815653360

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9780815653363

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Your Diamond Dreams Cut Open My Arteries

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