Wunderblock. Durs Grünbein and the Urban Arts of Memory

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. A Note on Translations ix
5. Preface xiii
6. Durs Grünbein and the Wende 1
7. Durs Grünbein and the European Tradition 23
8. Grünbein and Anglo-American Poetry. Dickinson, Pound, Larkin 39
9. Durs Grünbein and the Poetry of Science 67
10. Philosophy and Poetry in Durs Grünbein’s Prose 95
11. Concept(ion) versus Ekphrasis. Durs Grünbein’s Approach to the Pictorial Arts 119
12. Wunderblock. Durs Grünbein and the Urban Arts of Memory 145
13. ‘Speak, memory!’ Durs Grünbein’s Strophen für übermorgen 163
14. A Poetics of Presence. Travel Cycles in Aroma and Lob des Taifuns 181
15. Europe after the Last Rains. On Ashes for Breakfast 205
16. ‘Cadences in the Gaps of Time’. The Poet, the Past and Porzellan 219
17. Durs Grünbein. A Bibliography 235
18. Contributors 251
19. Index 253