With My Shadow

With My Shadow: The Poems of Hilde Domin, A Bilingual SelectionTranslated by Sarah Kafatou190-page paperback / 5.5" x 8.5" / ISBN 9781589881747 / Publication Date: 4/4/2023 Not to tire / but to hold out your hand / gently / as to a bird / to the miracleThis bilingual edition of the poems of Hilde Domin, an outstanding lyric poet of exile and return, brings her work to English-speaking readers for the first time.Hilde Domin fled Nazi Germany when, as a Jew, she was no longer safe there. For many years she lived in Italy and the Dominican Republic, where she encountered modernist currents in Italian and Spanish poetry. Returning permanently to Germany in the mid-1950s, she quickly found recognition as a poet of memory and reconciliation. For the rest of her long life she wrote and spoke in a tone poised between vulnerability and trust, on behalf of moral and civic values worth living for. As Sarah Kafatou writes in her Introduction, Domin “is always frugal: she reworks and transforms her