Publisher's Synopsis
The first translation, into any language of Kurt Pinthus's "Menschheitsdaemmerung" (The Dawn of Humanity) - a significant anthology of German Expressionist poetry. A bestseller in 1919, banned by the Nazis in 1933, and republished after World War II, the collection - which contains prescient visions of the horrors of war and the impersonality of the modern metropolis - remains in print today in Germany.;The anthology contains 278 poems by 23 authors (including Heym and Trakl), most of whom died in World War I or in political exile. It also contains some 40 pages of bio-bibliographical information on these authors.
