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Few American readers seem to be aware that Hermann Hesse, author of the epic novels Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, among many others, also wrote poetry, the best of which the poet James Wright has translated and included in this book. This is a special volumefilled with short, direct poems about love, death, loneliness, the seasonsthat is imbued with some of the imagery and feeling of Hesse''s novels but that has a clarity and resonance all its own, a sense of longing for love and for home that is both deceptively simple and deeply moving.

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A Paperback / softback by Hermann Hesse, Professor James Wright

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    Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
    Publication Date: 18/03/2008
    ISBN13: 9780374526412, 978-0374526412
    ISBN10: 0374526419
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    Book Synopsis

    Few American readers seem to be aware that Hermann Hesse, author of the epic novels Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, among many others, also wrote poetry, the best of which the poet James Wright has translated and included in this book. This is a special volumefilled with short, direct poems about love, death, loneliness, the seasonsthat is imbued with some of the imagery and feeling of Hesse''s novels but that has a clarity and resonance all its own, a sense of longing for love and for home that is both deceptively simple and deeply moving.

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