
The German poet and lyricist Sarah Kirsch died on 5 May following a short illness.
Born Ingrid Bernstein in what later became East Germany, she changed her name to Sarah in protest against Nazi anti-semitism. Later political protest caused her to leave for the West.
Sarah Kirsch's pamphlet, the poem sequence
T, with a parallel English translation by Wendy Mulford and Anthony Vivis, was published by Reality Street in 1995. It's a beautiful little item, physically quite unlike the rest of Reality...
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