Cover of Grünbein's 2008 poetry book Der cartesische Taucher.
Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of My City is a 2005 poetry collection by the German writer Durs Grünbein. It consists of 49 poems about the city of Dresden, lamenting its developments and destruction
Durs Grünbein
…Seneca, and a variety of authors, including John Ashbery, Samuel Beckett, Wallace Stevens, Henri Michaux, and Tomas Venclova. Grünbein's 2005 poetry book Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of My City and 2023 novel Der Komet are personal works about the city of Dresden and its destruction in indiscriminate Allied bombing in 1945. His works have been…
Porcelain, Poem on the Downfall of My City