Unchanging Blue, An
Selected Poems, 1962-1975
Published on 28. June 2011
222 pages
978-1-60235-199-8 (ISBN)
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An Unchanging Blue provides a generous sampling of translations (with German originals) taken from ten collections of Rolf Dieter Brinkmann's poetry published between 1962 and 1975. An extensive introduction by Mark Terrill contextualizes Brinkmann's place in postwar German literature.
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Rolf Dieter Brinkmann was born in Vechta, Germany, in 1940, in the midst of World War II, and died in 1975, in London, England, after being struck by a hit-and-run driver. During his lifetime, Brinkmann published nine poetry collections, four short story collections, several radio plays, and a highly acclaimed novel. He also edited and translated two important German-language anthologies of contemporary American poetry (primarily Beat and New York School, for which Brinkmann had a particular affinity), and translated Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems into German, as well as a collection of poems by Ted Berrigan, entitled Guillaume Apollinaire ist Tot. In May, 1975, just a few weeks after his death, Brinkmann's seminal, parameter-expanding poetry collection Westwärts 1 & 2 appeared, which was posthumously awarded the prestigious Petrarca Prize.
Content
- Front cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Introduction by Mark Terrill
- Zwischenzeiten
- Between-Times
- Von der Gegenständlichkeit eines Gedichtes
- Of the Representativeness of a Poem
- Das Schweigen
- The Silence
- Die Stimmen
- The Voices
- Heute
- Today
- Verwechslung
- Confusion
- Immer mehr Worte
- Always More Words
- Heimliche Souvenirs
- Secret Souvenirs
- Schnee
- Snow
- Auf einem falschen Ast
- On a Mistaken Branch
- Gedichte schreiben
- Writing Poems
- Was soll das
- What's the Purpose
- Gedicht am 19. März 1964
- Poem on March 19th, 1964
- Schlaf
- Sleep
- Einfache Gedanken über meinen Tod
- Simple Thoughts About my Death
- 10 Uhr 20
- 20 Past 10
- Dieses Zimmer
- This Room
- Hölderlin-Herbst
- Hölderlin-Autumn
- Wechselt die Jahreszeit
- Change of Seasons
- Gedicht vor Anfang des Winters
- Poem Before the Beginning of Winter
- Ein einziger Satz
- A Single Sentence
- Vogel am leeren Winterhimmel
- Bird in the Empty Winter Sky
- Er lobt die Suppe
- He Praises the Soup
- Jemand
- Someone
- Schlesingers Film
- Schlesinger's Film
- Einmal
- One Time
- Hier nicht
- Not Here
- Bild von einem Hotel
- Picture of a Hotel
- Alka-Seltzer
- Alka-Seltzer
- Es war still
- It Was Quiet
- Die Konservendose
- The Tin Can
- Godzilla-Baby
- Godzilla-Baby
- Das Bild
- The Picture
- Godzilla telefoniert so gern
- Godzilla Telephones so Gladly
- Wichtig
- Important
- Godzilla und der Vogel
- Godzilla and the Bird
- Französisch
- French
- Godzillas Ende
- Godzilla's End
- Chiquita-Banana-High
- Chiquita-Banana-High
- Die rote Farbe
- The Red Paint
- Noch einmal
- Once Again
- Liedchen
- Song
- Taube,
- von einem Piloten beobachtet
- Pigeon,
- Observed by a Pilot
- Eine Übergroße Photographie von Liz Taylor
- A Blow-up of Liz Taylor
- Der Mond, der Präsident
- und die amerikanische Prärie
- Populäres Gedicht Nr. 11
- The Moon, the President
- and the American Prairie
- Popular Poem No. 11
- Der nackte Fuß
- von Ava Gardner
- The Naked Foot
- of Ava Gardner
- Wie ein Pilot
- Populäres Gedicht Nr. 13
- Like a Pilot
- Popular Poem No. 13
- Brief an Humphrey Bogart,
- Schon weit entfernt
- Letter to Humphrey Bogart,
- Already Far Away
- Ra-ta-ta-ta für Bonnie & Clyde etc.
- Rat-a-tat-tat for Bonnie & Clyde, etc.
- Lebenslauf einer Frau
- Biography of a Woman
- Comic No. 2
- Comic No. 2
- Der Dreh
- The Turn
- Und
- And
- Künstliches Licht
- Artificial Light
- Kälter
- Colder
- Alltägliche Musik
- Everyday Music
- Unter Glas
- Under Glass
- Nachmittags
- Afternoons
- Fotos 1, 2
- Photos 1, 2
- Ein Gedicht
- A Poem
- Aufwachen
- Waking Up
- Improvisation 1, 2 & 3 (u.a. nach Han Shan)
- Improvisation 1, 2 & 3 (after Han Shan)
- Die Orangensaftmaschine
- The Orange Juice Machine
- Einen jener klassischen
- One of Those Classic
- Ein anderes Lied
- A Different Song
- Ein Glas frisches Wasser
- A Glass of Cold Water
- Einige sehr populäre Songs
- Some Very Popular Songs
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- About the Translator
- Free Verse Editions
- Back cover
