Durs Grünbein’s elegy for Dresden

This chapter examines German poet Durs Grünbein’s book-length poem for Dresden <i>Porzellan. Poem vom Untergang meiner Stadt</i> (2005), published as <i>Porcelain Poem on the Downfall of My City</i> (2020). This controversial text is an elegy for the poet’s hometown destroyed...