Impromptus: Selected Poems and Some Prose

by Gottfried Benn

An extraordinary collection of poetry and prose from the master of German expressionism

The first poem in Gottfried Benn's first book, Morgue (1912)--written in an hour, published in a week, and notorious ever after--with its scandalous closing image of an aster sewn into a corpse by a playful medical student, set Benn on the path to celebrity and notoriety. And indeed, mortality, flowers, and powerful aesthetic collisions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374175373
• ISBN13: 9780374175375
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"