{"product_id":"the-gallows-songs","title":"The Gallows Songs","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of dazzling, playful, and linguistically inventive poetry by one of Germany's finest writers, in a classic translation that honors the author's amazing verbal acrobatics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristian Morgenstern s \u003ci\u003eThe Gallows Songs\u003c\/i\u003e are some of the most delightful and imaginative creations of twentieth-century German poetry. Composed originally after an outing Morgenstern took with his friends to Gallows Hill near Potsdam, these lively, puckish poems envision Gallows Hill as a fantastical world populated with fabulous animals, bizarre mechanisms, and some truly unruly punctuation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMorgenstern felt that people often used their familiar language unthinkingly, without ever pausing to marvel at the glorious arbitrariness of words. Through poems chock-full of irresistible wordplay and unabashedly exuberant rhymes, he invites us to meditate but also to med-it-nine and med-i-ten on all the incidents and accidents of language that make the world of words so vibrant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrue to the spirit of Morgenstern s linguistic mischief, Max Knight s translation sparkles with uncommon wit as it reinvents in English Morgenstern s daring verbal acrobatics, and is itself a feat of poetic genius.","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":53855188648274,"sku":"9781681379456","price":20.7,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_b1674d8f-a564-4b39-897f-a19c39f76ad3.jpg?v=1782606809","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/the-gallows-songs","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}