Publisher's Synopsis
This new edition of The Garden of Theophrastus brings back into print one of Germany's finest recent poets, in translations by his close friend Michael Hamburger. Peter Huchel (1903-1981) wrote amidst the political turmoil of twentieth-century Germany before the country's re-unification. A highly influential figure in the former East Germany, he edited the magazine Sinn und Form there until 1962 but was dismissed for indulging too 'liberal' a policy. Before that break, and through the hardship of the Second World War and its vexed aftermath, he maintained a poetry of humane commitment, formal invention and precision.
