- KROLOW, Karl
- Karl Krolow was born
in 1915 and died in 1999. He studied Geman and French literature,
philosophy, and art history. He began writing poetry about nature,
especially influenced by Wilhelm Lehmann, but then, under the influence
of Modernist French and Spanish poetry (some of which he also translated),
his poems take on a more playful yet at the same time matter-of-fact
tone. His major achievements involved unrhymed verse; therefore,
when Korlow decided to use rhyme in his later works on occasion,
it serves our attention. Rhyme is often hard to translate. The translations
included in Volume 6, Number 2/3 are hewn to follow meaning as closely
as possible and, therefore, do not focus on rhyme.
Kleiner Süden (Our Little South) from Der Einfachheit
halber. Gedichte : Vol. 3, No. 2
Wir leben schneller und andere Gedichte (Life in the Fast Lane
and other poems) from Die zweite Zeit (Frankfurt am
Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1995): Vol. 6, No. 2/3
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