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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 Selected Poems came out in the spring. He has recently been a poet in residence at the Queensland Poetry Festival.