The Bars of Atlantis: Selected Essays
Durs Grunbein, , edited by Michael Eskin, trans. from the German by John Crutchfield, Michael H. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26 (323pp) ISBN 978-0-374-26062-0
A map of poet and essayist Grünbein's mind using markers from these essays might plot a path from his native Dresden, where a mountain of garbage was the source of his poetry, through Sienna's Piazza del Campo, the town square that has most inspired him, down to oceanic depths and its denizens, “the oldest designs on the theme of 'fish,' ” and to mythical Atlantis. As Grünbein (
Reviewed on: 02/15/2010
Genre: Nonfiction
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