Impromptus: Selected Poems by Gottfried Benn

Impromptus: Selected Poems

Gottfried Benn with Michael Hofmann (Translator)

160 pages hardcover 2013

3 editions

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The first poem in Gottfried Benn's first book, Morgue (1912) - written in an hour, published in a week, and notorious ever after, or so the poet claimed - with its scandalous closing image of an aster sewn into a corpse by a playful medical studen...

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