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By Michael Eskin

Poetic Affairs offers with the advanced and engaging interface among literature and existence during the prism of the lives and works of 3 notable poets: the German-Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor, Paul Celan (1920–1970); the Leningrad local, U.S. poet laureate, and Nobel Prize winner, Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996); and Germany's most advantageous modern poet, Durs Grünbein (born 1962). concentrating on their poetic dialogues with such interlocutors as Shakespeare, Seneca, and Byron, respectively—veritable amorous affairs unfolding in and during poetry—Eskin bargains exceptional readings of Celan's, Brodsky's, and Grünbein's lives and works and discloses the ways that poetry articulates and is still trustworthy to the manifold "truths"—historical, political, poetic, erotic—determining human existence.

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