"My Father the sparrowhawk." the Legendary Poems of Johannes Bobrowski

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In 1994, New Directions, the legendary publishing house founded by James Laughlin and inspired by Ezra Pound, published Shadow Lands, an anthology of verse by Johannes Bobrowski, "the most important German poet of this century." The poet had died thirty years earlier, in East Berlin, due to a worsening of his appendix; he had not yet turned fifty. Beyond his dizzying poetry, two things about Bobrowski were attractive, justifying his "success" on…