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Spring 2010 • Vol. XXXII No. 2 • Poetry |

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By G. Eich, translated by Michael Hofmann

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Michael Hofmann is a poet and translator from the German. He teaches at the University of Florida in Gainesville. His translation of Alfred Doblin's novel Berlin Alexanderplatz is just out from NYRB Classics. He has a new book of poems One Lark, One Horse, due next spring from Farrar, Straus; Angina Days, his translations from Eich, appeared in 2008 from Princeton University Press.

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