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SCOTT HORTON?Poor Aster: The Expressionist?s Take on a Flower |
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Contributed by Scott Horton
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Gottfried Benn is certainly the chief of the German expressionist poets. He was a controversial figure, a medical doctor who made his name as a man of letters, and as a provocateur. His work is very good, though the critical assessment of it has been uneven. The first works I read were his cycle Morgue and Other Poems and this one, Little Aster, is definitely the best of the series. In any event, I?ve had a hard time forgetting it. I?ve just rendered it into English, so you can have a hard time forgetting it, too. . . .
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