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Illustrated card covers, 214 x 140 mm approx. 112 pp. Frontis Portrait drawing of author by Luise Keller. First printing 1996 of the Second expanded edition. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Near Fine (Book- no notable shelf wear to covers. No previous owner name, insc. or annotations. No other notable defects). N° de ref. del artículo 132002

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Críticas: Hölderlin is a poet we can read with our own atrocious times in mind. He is a deeply religious poet whose fundamental tenet is absence and the threat of meaninglessness. He confronted hopelessness as few writers have, he was what Rilke called "exposed"; but there is no poetry like his for the constant engendering of hope, for the expression, in the body and breath of poems, of the best and most passionate aspirations. --David Constantine

Constantine goes for an "equivalence of spirit" in a more familiar idiom. This is at once a bold and humble undertaking, and has produced poetry of a remarkable luminosity and intensity, written in rhythms and cadences which recreate, both in their extremities of grief and their urgent hope, the immediacy of the original. --Karen Leeder, Oxford Poetry