Prefatory Note
Introduction: A Brief Discourse (Mostly) on Method
1. On a Difficult Book to Write, Literary Facts, and Grünbein's America
2. The Greatest American Poet of the German Language
3. Coming of Age as an American Poet in Germany
4. "Jews, Real Jews"
5. Writing America as a German Poet
6. The German Grünbein's German America
7. The End of the Affair
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index