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Selected Poems
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Michael Kruger is a major figure in modern German poetry, one of its great editors and leading practitioners. In 1993 Carcanet published Diderot's Cat, Michael Kruger's original Selected Poems, which drew on thirteen collections. This new edition, in German and English, incorporates portions of that book with selections from five later books, translated by Karen Leeder and Richard Dove. Introducing Diderot's Cat, Dove declared, 'If the recent German Zeitgeist could speak, it might sound a good deal like Michael Kruger.' For his American editor and publisher the poet Stanley Moss he is 'a self-made oracle of various cultures. His poetry - teaches us how to walk in the night - '
MICHAEL KRUGER, poet, novelist, and translator, was born in Wittgendorf, Germany in 1943. He served as editor and publisher of Hanser Verlag for 45 years until his retirement in 2013, the same year he was presented the Lifetime Achievement Award in International Publishing by the London Book Fair.
"A well-disguised mystic...a scribe who has got beyond books, to the point where the wisdom of masters begins--the absurd wisdom which writes its final word on water. It would not be entirely wrong, either, to call Kruger a master of the love-poem, a first-rate painter of landscapes and climates, a reviver of the Roman Elegy, a painter's poet. But he is all these things with a difference: there is a 'remainder' which--in rational terms--should not exist, which one will only discover if one is not looking for it and which is...everything."--Adolf Muschg
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