Prose Essays Poems: Gottfried Benn [Paperback]

Foreword: E.B. Ashton

Introduction: Reinhard Paul Becker

PART ONE: PROSE

The Birthday
Translated by E.B. Ashton

Alexander's March by Means of Flushes
Translated by E.B. Ashton

Primal Vision
Translated by E.B. Ashton

From The Way of an Intellectualist
Translated by E.B. Ashton

Wolf's Tavern
Translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins

Block II, Room 66
From Double Life
Translated by E.B. Ashton

The Glass-Blower
From The Ptolemean
Translated by Joel Agee

Letter from Berlin, July 1948
Translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins

PART TWO: ESSAYS

The Problem of Genius
Translated by Joel Agee

Can Poets Change the World?
Translated by Joel Agee

After Nihilism
Translated by Joel Agee

Art and the Third Reich
Translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins

Pallas
Translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins

Pessimism
Translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins

Induced Life
Translated by Joel Agee

Future and PresentFrom: Double Life
Translated by E.B. Ashton

Artists and Old Age
Translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins

PART THREE: POEMS

Translated by E.B. Ashton, Robert M. Browning, Alexandra Chciuk-Celt, Joseph B. Dallet, Babette Deutsch, Richard Exner, Franz Feige, Patricia Gleason, Michael Hamburger, E.L. Kanes, Max Knight, Christopher Middleton, J.M. Ritchie, Karl F. Ross, Gertrude C. Schwebell, Richard Sieburth, Vernon Watkins, Kerry Weinberg

Man and Woman Go through the Cancer Ward (Mann und Frau gehn durch die Krebsbaracke)

Night Cafe (Nachtcafe)

Appendectomy (Blinddarm)

Songs (Gesange)

Subway Train (Untergrundbahn)

Icarus (Ikarus)

The Late Ego (Das spate Ich)

Who Are You (Wer bist Du-)

Qui Sait

From Far Shores, from Kingdoms (Aus Fernen, aus Reichen)

And Yet, with Swords alCç