Ashes for Breakfast (22 page)

DURS GRÜNBEIN
ASHES FOR BREAHFAST

DURS GRÜNBEIN
is the author of eight previous volumes of poetry, as well as essays and translations from the Greek and Latin. His work has been awarded many major German literary prizes, including the highest, the Georg-Büchner-Preis, which he won at age thirty-three, and the 2004 Friedrich-Nietzsche-Preis. He has lived in Berlin since 1985.

MICHAEL HOFMANN
lives in London and teaches part-time at the University of Florida. He has translated many German-language authors, among them Ernst Jünger, Franz Kafka, Wolfgang Koeppen, and Joseph Roth.

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Copyright © 2005 by Durs Grünbein

Translation and preface copyright © 2005 by Michael Hofmann

All rights reserved

Published in 2005 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

First paperback edition, 2006

Grauzone morgens
(1988),
Schädelbasislektion
(1991),
Falten und Fallen
(1994),
Nach den Satiren
(1999), and
Erklärte Nacht
(2002) were originally published by Suhrkamp Verlag, Germany.

Some of these poems previously appeared, in slightly different form, in
Grand Street, The Literary Review, London Review of Books, The New Republic,
and
The Times Literary Supplement.

Excerpts from “May 24, 1980” and “San Pietro” from
Collected Poems in English
by Joseph Brodsky. Copyright © 2000 by the Estate of Joseph Brodsky. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.

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Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53013-6

Paperback ISBN-10: 0-374-53013-0

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eISBN 9781466886131

First eBook edition: October 2014