Gert Hofmann, Rachel MagShamhráin, Marko Pajevic and Michael Shields

Introduction - Gert Hofmann and Rachel MagShamhráin and Marko Pajevic and Michael Shields
The Poetics of Silence: Nelly Sachs - Elaine Martin
"Flaschenpost" and "Wurfholz": Reflections on Paul Celan's Poems and Poetics - Gisela Dischner
History and Nature in Motion: Paradigms of Transformation in the Postwar Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann - Marton Marko
Mourning as Remembrance: Writing as Figuration and Defiguration in the Poetry of Rose Ausländer - Annette Runte
On the Fringes: Mistrust as Commitment in the Poetics of Ilse Aichinger - Marko Pajevic
Nazi Terror and the Poetical Potential of Dreams: Charlotte Beradt's Das Dritte Reich des Traums - Hans-Walter Schmidt-Hannisa
Between 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 Hajduk
Concrete Poetry - Chris Bezzel
Heiner Müller: Discontinuity and Transgression - Renata Plaice
Let's Begin, Again: History, Intertext, and Rupture in Heiner Müller's Germania Cycle - Barry Murnane
Rupture, Tradition, and Achievement in Thomas Kling's Poetics and Poetry - Aniela Knoblich
Sartre 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 Braganca
André Malraux and Oswald Spengler: The Poetics of Metamorphosis - Peter Tame
Freud's Brain in the Snow: Catastrophe and Creativity in the Poetics of Danilo Kis - Tatjana Petzer
Claude Lanzmann's Shoah and the Aesthetics of Ohnmacht - Gert Hofmann
Works Cited
Notes on the Contributors
Index