These Numbered Days

<p>“With Brecht Benn Bobrowski and Celan Peter Huchel is one of a handful of essential post-war poets in the German language. A precise observer of natural phenomena Huchel is above all a realist whose metaphors take us deep into the social and historical landscape into zones of devastation and despair the zero-hour of isolation. His world is devoid of illusion or sentimentality; there is no redemption at most an exactitude that is itself a confirmation of what is human and real. Lifted out of the schismatic currents of the Cold War era by Martyn Crucefix’s supple and arrestingly sensual translations Huchel surprises us as a fresh and startling voice for our own numbered days.” —Iain Galbraith</p>