The bars of Atlantis : selected essays / Durs Grünbein ; translated from the German by John Crutchfield, Michael Hofmann, and Andrew Shields ; edited and with an introduction by Michael Eskin.
Brief report to an academy -- Volcano and poem -- Breaking the body -- Childhood in the diorama -- Three miniatures -- The age of deep-sea fish -- Darwin's eyes -- My Babylonish brain -- To Lord Chandos : a fax from the future -- Q as in Quotation -- On the question of style -- The poem and its secret -- Why live without writing -- Accented time -- The bars of Atlantis -- Madonna and Venus -- One Sunday of life -- The vanished square -- A little blue girl -- The thinker's voice -- The stroke of Apollo -- In the name of extremes -- A tear for Petronius -- Brother Juvenal -- Between antiquity and X.
