Selected Poems and Fragments: Dual-Language Edition YA_Gift_Guide coffin-makers--are only obliquely touched by

coffin-makers--are only obliquely touched by the chaos of twentieth-century progress

As late as 1999

successfully gives Landon King a taste of his own medicine

A tribute to Japan's God of Manga by his long-time American friend and translator

In the hills above Port-au-Prince

Selected Poems and Fragments: Dual-Language Edition YA_Gift_Guide coffin-makers--are only obliquely touched byFriedrich Hlderlin (1770 1843) is now recognized as one of Europes supreme poets. He first found his true voice in the epigrams and odes he wrote when transfigured by his love for the wife of a rich banker. He later embarked on an extraordinarily ambitious sequence of hymns exploring cosmology and history, from mythological times to the discovery of America and his own era. The Canticles of Night, by contrast, include enigmatic fragments in an