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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.

Poems

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    A Paperback / softback by Hermann Hesse, Professor James Wright

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      Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
      Published 18 March 2008
      ISBN-13 9780374526412
      978-0374526412
      ISBN-10 0374526419
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      Poetry Books by Hermann Hesse

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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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