Igel und Agel/Stickly and Stackly: Galgen- und Kinderlieder/Gallows and Children's Songs

Title

en_US Igel und Agel/Stickly and Stackly: Galgen- und Kinderlieder/Gallows and Children's Songs

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Language note: Bilingual English/German

en_US Original language: ger

en_US Christian Morgenstern/Max Knight

Creator

en_US Knight, Max (translator)

Contributor

en_US Michl, Reinhard

Date

2016-01-25T20:04:59Z

en_US 2006-08

en_US 1992

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:04:59Z

Date Issued

en_US 1992

Abstract

en_US This is a delightful book of poems that I am eager to get into the collection. Only a few of its items might be considered fables. The book is bilingual on facing pages. The gallows poems run from 9 to 93 and the children's poems from 95 to 143. The spirit of the book is well expressed on the back of the dust-jacket: Don't ask, there's no replying./No comments, we declare./We just like versifying. There is an evident love here for the short poem. Both writers are fascinating, but there is no room to say more about that here. Goat and Slithard (55) reports an encounter between a snake and a goat. The title poem (65) is a true Galgenlied. Stickly blew off every single quill and drowned, while Stackly (referred to as a hedgehag in another translation) was eyeing a handsome neighbor. The Pike (81) tells of a fish that got religion, became a vegetarian, but what he ate came out behind and polluted the pond so badly that 500 fish were executed. Saint Anthony, who had converted him, could only say Holy, holy, holy! The Liondeer (91) tells of a Mexican standoff. A forster has a gun that vaporizes his prey. He shoots the liondeer who eats him up and then is vaporized. Since then the couple has lived on,/a mythical phenomenon. The Fox and the Chickens (125) gets one of the book's eleven delightful colored illustrations. The fox lures his food with his flute. Mr. Spoon and Mrs. Fork (139) shows Mr. Spoon getting smart when he has to face both knife and fork. Here is another book of sheer fun! Was it Adele Filbry or perhaps Franz or Ursula Kuhn who first put me on to Morgenstern?

Identifier

en_US 9783492035972

en_US 7343 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82613

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Piper

en_US Munich

Subject

en_US PT2625.O64 I4 1992

en_US Christian Morgenstern/Max Knight

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole