The People and the Stones by Heinz Winfried Sabais
Heinz Winfried Sabais' poetry first appeared in English translation by Ruth and Matthew Mead in 1968. This title includes most of the poems collected in the earlier book, together with two long political poems written in the 1970s - Agenda and Socialist Elegy - and a selection from the posthumously published Self or Saxifrage.
Heinz Winfried Sabais was born in 1922 in Breslau. He studied literature and philosopy at the University of Jena. During the war he was a pilot. He fled to the West in 1950 and settled in Darmstadt, where he was active in politics as a moderate Social Democrat. From 1954 he was in charge of the city's cultural affairs; he was elected Chief Burgomaster of Darmstadt in 1971. He published four main collections of poetry in his lifetime, and a literary-ideological study of power, 'Gotter Kaiser Diktatoren'. A selection of his poetry and prose, 'Fazit', appeared in 1982 with a foreword by Karl Krolow. Ruth and Matthew Mead have translated selections from the poetry of Horst Bienek, Johannes Bobrowski, Elisabeth Borchers and other German poets. Matthew Mead's collections of poetry are 'Identities' (1967), 'The Administration of Things' (1970) and 'The Midday Muse' (1979).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780856461101 |
| ISBN 10 | 0856461105 |
| Title | The People and the Stones |
| Author | Heinz Winfried Sabais |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Carcanet Press Ltd |
| Year published | 1983-11-24 |
| Number of pages | 72 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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