[A] thorough and thoughtful engagement with poetological developments after the 1945 rupture (or lack thereof) and an excellent source of in-depth, nuanced readings of Adorno . . . . [T]he editors are to be congratulated on raising timely (perhaps too timely?) and important questions, even if all of the answers to these questions are not (yet) forthcoming.

• Introduction - Gert Hofmann and Rachel MagShamhráin and Marko Pajevic and Michael ShieldsThe Poetics of Silence: Nelly Sachs - Elaine Martin"Flaschenpost" and "Wurfholz": Reflections on Paul Celan's Poems and Poetics - Gisela DischnerHistory and Nature in Motion: Paradigms of Transformation in the Postwar Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann - Marton MarkoMourning as Remembrance: Writing as Figuration and Defiguration in the Poetry of Rose Ausländer - Annette RunteOn the Fringes: Mistrust as Commitment in the Poetics of Ilse Aichinger - Marko PajevicNazi Terror and the Poetical Potential of Dreams: Charlotte Beradt's Das Dritte Reich des Traums - Hans-Walter Schmidt-HannisaBetween Kahlschlag and New Sensibilities: Notes toward a Poetics of Thought after Gottfried Benn - Rudiger Gorner"Barely explicable power of the word, that separates and conjoins": Gottfried Benn's Problems of Poetry and Its Poetology of Existence - Stefan HajdukConcrete Poetry - Chris BezzelHeiner Müller: Discontinuity and Transgression - Renata PlaiceLet's Begin, Again: History, Intertext, and Rupture in Heiner Müller's Germania Cycle - Barry MurnaneRupture, Tradition, and Achievement in Thomas Kling's Poetics and Poetry - Aniela KnoblichSartre and His Literary Alter Ego Mathieu in Les Chemins de la liberté (1938-49): From the Roads to an Abstract Freedom to the Roads of Authenticity - Manuel BragancaAndré Malraux and Oswald Spengler: The Poetics of Metamorphosis - Peter TameFreud's Brain in the Snow: Catastrophe and Creativity in the Poetics of Danilo Kis - Tatjana PetzerClaude Lanzmann's Shoah and the Aesthetics of Ohnmacht - Gert HofmannWorks CitedNotes on the ContributorsIndex

[A] thorough and thoughtful engagement with poetological developments after the 1945 rupture (or lack thereof) and an excellent source of in-depth, nuanced readings of Adorno . . . . [T]he editors are to be congratulated on raising timely (perhaps too timely?) and important questions, even if all of the answers to these questions are not (yet) forthcoming.

• Introduction - Gert Hofmann and Rachel MagShamhráin and Marko Pajevic and Michael ShieldsThe Poetics of Silence: Nelly Sachs - Elaine Martin"Flaschenpost" and "Wurfholz": Reflections on Paul Celan's Poems and Poetics - Gisela DischnerHistory and Nature in Motion: Paradigms of Transformation in the Postwar Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann - Marton MarkoMourning as Remembrance: Writing as Figuration and Defiguration in the Poetry of Rose Ausländer - Annette RunteOn the Fringes: Mistrust as Commitment in the Poetics of Ilse Aichinger - Marko PajevicNazi Terror and the Poetical Potential of Dreams: Charlotte Beradt's Das Dritte Reich des Traums - Hans-Walter Schmidt-HannisaBetween Kahlschlag and New Sensibilities: Notes toward a Poetics of Thought after Gottfried Benn - Rudiger Gorner"Barely explicable power of the word, that separates and conjoins": Gottfried Benn's Problems of Poetry and Its Poetology of Existence - Stefan HajdukConcrete Poetry - Chris BezzelHeiner Müller: Discontinuity and Transgression - Renata PlaiceLet's Begin, Again: History, Intertext, and Rupture in Heiner Müller's Germania Cycle - Barry MurnaneRupture, Tradition, and Achievement in Thomas Kling's Poetics and Poetry - Aniela KnoblichSartre and His Literary Alter Ego Mathieu in Les Chemins de la liberté (1938-49): From the Roads to an Abstract Freedom to the Roads of Authenticity - Manuel BragancaAndré Malraux and Oswald Spengler: The Poetics of Metamorphosis - Peter TameFreud's Brain in the Snow: Catastrophe and Creativity in the Poetics of Danilo Kis - Tatjana PetzerClaude Lanzmann's Shoah and the Aesthetics of Ohnmacht - Gert HofmannWorks CitedNotes on the ContributorsIndex