{"title":"Johannes Bobrowski","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohannes Bobrowski\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(1917–1964) published his first poems in the prestigious East German journal \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSinn und Form\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein 1955. During the following years, Bobrowski continued to sketch out an ambitious cycle of poems which he referred to as his \"Sarmatian Divan\"—located in ancient Sarmatia, a region half-historical and half-mythical. Slow to find a publisher, these poems eventually saw light—quite unusually, in simultaneous West and East German editions—under the titles \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSarmatian Time\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(1961), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eShadowland Rivers (1962),\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand the posthumous \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWeathersigns\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(1966). Toward the end of his career, before his untimely death at age 47, Bobrowski turned increasingly to prose, publishing two novels, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLevin's Mill\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(1964) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLithuanian Piano\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(1966), as well as several collections of short stories.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"under-the-edge-of-night","title":"Under the Edge of Night","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOften compared to the poetry of Paul Celan and Nelly Sachs, the postwar verse of Johannes Bobrowski is set in the Prussian-Lithuanian landscapes of Bobrowski's childhood and in the killing fields he witnessed as a young German soldier on the eastern front in WWII.  Bobrowski described his poems as his “war wounds,” and in these odes and elegies of the mid-fifties and early sixties one can see and hear his belated healing process at work: to bring what has lain buried and forgotten back to the surface, in the hope that Germany's historic oppression of eastern peoples, be they Jewish or Slavic or Roma, might finally be honestly addressed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this new dual-language and freshly annotated translation, the idiosyncratic rhythms and imagistic urgencies of Bobrowski’s verse again come to life in Sieburth’s marvelous translation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":55223706222760,"sku":"9798896230977","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0726\/9203\/files\/Bobrowski-4.jpg?v=1776120595"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.nyrb.com\/collections\/johannes-bobrowski.oembed","provider":"New York Review Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}