Kiosk (poetry collection)

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Kiosk
Author Hans Magnus Enzensberger
Translator Michael Hamburger
LanguageGerman
Publisher Suhrkamp Verlag
Publication date
7 March 1995
Publication placeGermany
Published in English
1999
Pages134
ISBN 978-3-518-40680-9

Kiosk is a 1995 poetry collection by the German writer Hans Magnus Enzensberger.

Contents

Summary

The book is divided into four parts, titled "Historical Patchwork" (Geschichtsklitterung), "Mixed Feelings" (Gemischte Gefühle), "Diversions under the Cranium" (Belustigungen unter der Hirnschale) and "In Suspense" (In der Schwebe). They are connected by the longer poem "Flight of Ideas" (Gedankenflucht), which is split into four parts spread around the book. [1] [2]

Publication

Suhrkamp Verlag published Kiosk in German on 7 March 1995. [3] Sheep Meadow Press published an English interpretation by Michael Hamburger in 1999. [4]

Publishers Weekly wrote that Enzensberger is "a master of deflating senses of middle-class accomplishment, his own often foremost among them", but that Kiosk presents a more forgiving side of him, where he allows more free "observations and speculations on nature, evolution and mind". [4]

References

  1. ↑ Barbey, Rainer (2015). "Enzensberger, Hans Magnus: Kiosk. Neue Gedichte (Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp)". In Heribert Tommek, Matteo Galli and Achim Geisenhanslüke (ed.). Wendejahr 1995. Transformationen der deutschsprachigen Literatur (in German). Berlin, München, Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 373–378. doi:10.1515/9783110419023-025.
  2. ↑ Matt, Peter von (9 April 1995). "Dem denkenden Leser". Der Spiegel . Retrieved 26 November 2025.
  3. ↑ "Hans Magnus Enzensberger. Kiosk. Neue Gedichte" (in German). Suhrkamp Verlag . Retrieved 26 November 2025.
  4. 1 2 "Kiosk". Publishers Weekly . 30 August 1999. Retrieved 26 November 2025.
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