"An Affair on Uncertain Ground": Sarah Kirsch's Poetry Volume Erlking 's Daughter in the Context of Her Prose After the Wende

Translated by James Rolleston. Sarah Kirsch, who in the wake of the Biermann scandal moved from East to West Germany in 1977, is arguably the most talented living German lyric poet. But she is also a prose writer. It seems that since her break with the GDR in 1977 and the breakup of the GDR in 1989...

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Main Author: Christine Cosentino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 1997-01-01
Series:Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Online Access:http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol21/iss1/9