Two Poems 
Durs Grünbein
translated by Michael Hofmann
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Durs Grünbein is the author of six volumes of poetry; Ashes for Breakfast, his first book to be translated into English, will be published in February by Farrar, Straus. Michael Hofmann’s translation of Irmgard Keun’s novel Child of All Nations is out from Penguin this month. His Selected Poems are out from Faber.
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