Names
- Names
Names with ior names with o,the effort to rememberconsonantsseems beyond me.
It all hisses bylike the hiss on the phone,like like.I listen hard.A lot of conversationsin the year 1200concern mebut the pronunciation is different,which throws me off.Someone with ais addressing me now,a particular pressure of the handthat I don't return,a sip of winebaked dry,a leftover u,an unavailing y. [End Page 490]
Gunter Eich (1907–72) was among the leading poets of postwar Germany and received the George Buchner Prize in 1959 and the Schiller Memorial Prize in 1968. His poetry and radio plays have been translated into numerous languages, including Korean and Thai. His collected works were published in four volumes in 1991.
Michael Hofmann has received the Schlegel-Tieck Prize and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for translation.
