Hans Magnus Enzensberger: Poison

Hans Magnus Enzensberger, our candidate for next year’s Nobel Prize for Literature, is returning to Prague to celebrate the publication of Poison, his new collection of poems. He will converse and read at the Goethe Institute on Wednesday, 22 March at 7pm. Poison appears in a bilingual edition (Jed – Das Gift), translated into Czech by Tomáš Kafka, and published in the series "World Poets in Prague" by the Prague Writers´ Festival Foundation Fund, with the financial support of the German Embassy and the Goethe Institute in Prague. 

"We submit three theses concerning the development of the poetic process in history and the relationship between it and the political process:

Poetry must be more incorrupt than ever in insisting on its birthright against all domination.

Authority, stripped of its mythical cloak, can no longer be reconciled with poetry.

Poetry transmits the future.
 
The path of poetry is narrow and menaced with dangers, its chance of success modest - no less modest, even if more distinct, then our own."

 

 

HME "Poetry and Politics"                     PWF 2004