Ice Memory

Presents a selection of poems, where Jaochim Sartorius gathers his journeys between continents and cultures, and his encounters and observations gleaned from reading. The post-9/11 poems, translated from German by Robert Gray, Christopher Middleton and others, build a bridge across the West-Eastern divide. Translations by Richard Dove, Robert Gray, Michael Hamburger, Michael Hulse, Christopher Middleton, Sibylle Schlesier, Andrew Shields, Nathaniel Tarn and Rosmarie Waldorp Ice Memory is the first book of poems by the German poet Joachim Sartorius to be published in English. A traveller between continents, cultures and eras, Sartorius is a poet of global reach, whose poems, full of sound and light, documenting the wealth and exhaustion of the world, are magnificently brought into English by translators from Australia, Britain and the United States. In memories and ruins, Joachim Sartorius shows how bridges can be built in a fragmented world.