Selected poems book 8

Both the poets included in this volume were born in East Germany and have experienced the desolation of exile Bobrowski whose international reputation was established by 1965 when he died describes the essense of his homeland in language that is controlled precise and stark Bienek the younger poet is at present living in West Germany His poetry not previously published in England probes the wounds inflicted by four years in a Russian prison camp Selected Poems Johannes Bobrowski and Horst Bienek Penguin Modern European Poets I liked Bienek than Bobrowski particularly the two longer autobiographical poems Childhood in Gleiwitz and Poem of Time and Memory Matthew Bobrowski Johannes and Bienek Horst and Mead Ruth and Mead