A poem in Durs Grünbein’s collection Equidistance, published in 2022, the year of his sixtieth birthday, evokes equidistance as a line passing through Berlin: “East-West-Axis”. So far, perhaps, so Grünbein. The axis configuring Berlin has configured the work of Germany’s most significant living poet in multifarious ways since he first emerged – pre-reunification – with Mornings in the Grey Zone(1988).
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