FOR THE DYING CALVES

In his four Lord Weidenfeld Lectures held in Oxford in 2019, German poet Durs Grünbein dealt with a topic that has occupied his mind ever since he began to perceive his own position within the past of his nation, his linguistic community, and his family: How is it possible that history can determine the individual poetic imagination and segregate it into private niches? Shouldnt poetry look at the world with its own sovereign eyes instead? In the form of a collage or photosynthesis, in image and text, Grünbein lets thefundamental oppo...[Read more]