"There is an air of earnestness and sincerity about [Domin's] poems--they don't perform linguistic tricks . . . They are highly specific, idiosyncratic, and beautifully ordinary. Reading her, one is filled with a sense of natural wonder . . . Kafatou, who knew Domin, has sympathetically rendered a work as tender as it is beautiful . . . Kafatou's translations allow one to sense both Domin's self-possession and her insecurity." --Jewish Review of Books "These translations and poems are full of the refugee's loss and longing, made infinitely richer by Kafatou's love for the poet and poems. This is a deeply loving, compassionate collection of poems, remaining anchored, ultimately, in the exile's intertwined desire and nostalgia for home." --The Massachusetts Review Not to tire / but to hold out your hand / gently / as to a bird / to the miracle This bilingual edition of the poems of Hilde Domin, an outstanding lyric poet of exile and return, brings her work to English-speaking readers for the first time. Hilde Domin fled Nazi Germany when, as a Jew, she was no longer safe there. For many years she lived in Italy and the Dominican Republic, where she encountered modernist currents in Italian and Spanish poetry. Returning permanently to Germany in the mid-1950s, she quickly found recognition as a poet of memory and reconciliation. For the rest of her long life she wrote and spoke in a tone poised between vulnerability and trust, on behalf of moral and civic values worth living for.&nbsp; As Sarah Kafatou writes in her Introduction, Domin "is always frugal: she reworks and transforms her repertoire of metaphors, images, themes, and ideas again and again, extending and refining, never explaining too much. Her lyric sensibility is concise, her syntax and vocabulary are simple and apt, her short lines break on the phrase, and she has an uncanny ability to hit the right note at exactly the right moment, according to the rhythm of the breath." Domin writes of "people like us we among them," providing a voice for victims of persecution everywhere. Today, with refugee populations on the move throughout the world and with rising intolerance and polarization, these poems of conscience, and of courage discovered in desperation, will speak directly to every reader.

With My Shadow: The Poems of Hilde Domin, A Bilingual Selection

Literature & Fiction

Domin, Hilde

Poetry

Paul Dry Books

For the first time in English, a rich selection of poems by one of Germany's most loved writers. 
Hilde Domin is one of the most highly regarded German poets of the 20th century. A poet of the Jewish heritage, she fled political developments in Germany in 1932 and spent more than twenty years in various countries, including the Dominican Republic, which became her self-chosen namesake. Her work was deeply influenced by her time in exile and the loss of homeland. After returning to Germany, she was known as the "poet of return" and received numerous honors, including the Carl Zuckmayer Medal, the Nelly Sachs Prize, and the Grand Federal Cross of Merit. Presented bilingually, many of these poems appear here for the first time in English, brilliantly translated by Mark S. Burrows. 
"These shimmering poems lodge in the heart and blaze in the mind as they trace the journey of a deep soul through exile and self-realization."--Jay Parini 
"Hilde Domin is an essential poet for our current time and for those to come."--Rosebud Ben-Oni 
"For years we shared Hilde Domin's poems, photocopied from anthologies, eager for each of her blazing suns, our favorite forecast! Here is the book we have been waiting to carry into the day! "--CAConrad 
"Burrows has rendered Domin's deceptively simple language into an English that is as translucent as the original."--Hilary Davies 
"Hilde Domin wrenched from the darkest of times a formidable belief in the radiance that nonetheless exists in life."--Stephanie Dowrick 
"Through the clarity of Burrows' translation, Domin evokes not only her own experience, but the existential loneliness that is common to all; and there is solace in the recognition that this loneliness is paradoxically shared."--Jean Ward 
"Burrows has succeeded in carrying the radiant power of Domin's poems to the shoreline of his native tongue."--Vera-Sabine Winkler 
Poetry. History. Jewish Studies.

The Wandering Radiance: Selected Poems of Hilde Domin

Green Linden Press

Gesammelte Gedichte (German Edition)

S.Fischer

Der Baum blüht trotzdem

FISCHER, S.

Das zweite Paradies: Roman in Segmenten (Fischer Taschenbücher Allgemeine Reihe)

Genre Fiction

FISCHER Taschenbuch

Nur eine Rose als Stütze (Fischer Taschenbücher Allgemeine Reihe)

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