Emblems of the Passing World
Poems after Photographs by August Sander
Published on 20. October 2015
144 pages
978-1-59051-735-2 (ISBN)
Description
August Sander's photographic portraits of ordinary people in Weimar Germany inspire this uncanny new collection of poems by one of America's most celebrated writers and critics Through his portraits of ordinary people--soldiers, housewives, children, peasants, and city dwellers--August Sander, the German photographer whose work chronicled the extreme tensions and transitions of the twentieth century, captured a moment in history whose consequences he himself couldn't have predicted. Using these photographs as a lens, Adam Kirsch's poems connect the legacy of the First World War with the turmoil of the Weimar Republic with moving immediacy and meditative insight, and foreshadow the Nazi era. Kirsch writes both urgently and poignantly about these photographs, creating a unique dialogue of word and image that will speak to all readers interested in history, past and present.
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Adam Kirsch is the author of two collections of poems and several books of poetry criticism. A columnist for Tablet, he also writes for The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. He lives in New York City with his wife and son.
Content
- Intro
- Other Books by This Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Part I
- The Man of the Soil
- The Butcher's Apprentice
- Office Worker
- Match-seller
- Fitter
- Farming Couple - Propriety and Harmony
- Bricklayer
- Working-class Country Children
- Part II
- Middle-class Child
- Professional Middle-class Couple
- Society Lady
- Tannery Owners
- Skilled Tradesman and His Wife
- Student of Philosophy
- The Woman of Progressive Intellect
- The Philosopher
- Aviator
- Gasmen
- Laboratory Technician
- Master Shoemaker
- Kinetics Researcher from Vienna
- Part III
- Small-town Women
- Working-class Mother
- Widow with Her Sons
- Painter's Wife
- Farm Woman and Her Children
- Confirmation Candidate
- Farming Family
- Clergyman and Wife
- Mother and Child
- My Wife in Joy and Sorrow
- Girl
- Part IV
- Leader of a Splinter Party
- Member of Parliament (Democrat)
- Iceland Scholar and University Librarian
- Revolutionaries
- Village Schoolteacher
- Young Farmers
- Fraternity Student
- Military Height Differences
- Blind Children at Their Lessons
- Explosion Victim
- Matter
- Farmer Sowing
- Merchant's Clerk
- Photographer
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors
