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Michael Hofmann
Michael Hofmann is a poet and translator from the German. His latest book of poems is One Lark, One Horse, and his Clarendon Lectures, Messing About in Boats, were published in 2021. He teaches at the University of Florida. (February 2023)
Günter Eich
Günter Eich (1907–1972) was a member of Gruppe 47 and one of the leading postwar German poets. He won the Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden in 1953, and Germany's major literary prize, the Büchner Preis, in 1959. Michael Hofmann edited the anthology Twentieth-Century German Poetry. His translations from Günter Eich, Angina Days: Selected Poems, will be published in April. (March 2010)
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