Blue-Eyed Grass: Poems of Germany

Norbert Krapf is a poet, translator and editor of exceptional skill and experience. In "Blue-Eyed Grass: Poems of Germany" his images are evocative and memorable, the music of words and the rhythms of language are a pleasure for the ear when spoken and the theatre of the mind when read in silence. Like cattle closed out of a barn,/trees huddle around a frozen pond./Branches blur into the steep roofs/of a cluster of farm buildings./Gray has drifted and piled around/the farmyard like lingering snow./Gradually the earth thaws,/water oozes,light pries open/the blue eye of the sky. Leaves/unfurl. From an upstairs window/of the farmhouse, you can watch/plants grow and pink flowers bloom.Norbert Krapf is the author of 'Blue-Eyed Grass: Poems of Germany', published 1997 under ISBN 9781568090351 and ISBN 1568090358.