- Essays (single author), Poetry, Juvenile literature
As well as being Germany's most important poet, Enzensberger is a provocative cultural essayist and one of Europe's leading political thinkers. 'Lighter Than Air', his latest collection of moral poems, weighs lightness against seriousness.
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Spare, character-led, contemporary and contemplative.
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemporarynostalgic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 127
- Publisher
- Sheep Meadow Press, Bloodaxe, Sheep Meadow
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9781852245801
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About Hans Magnus Enzensberger · 1929–2022
German author, poet, translator and editor
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