Blossoms in the Snow

AUSTRIAN REFUGEE POETS IN MANHATTAN

EDITED BY JOSHUA PARKER

Thirty-five authors, through seventy-nine poems and short prose pieces, tell the story of the twentieth century’s greatest refugee crisis. An English translation brings their work to English-speaking readers for the first time, side by side with the original German.

The poems contextualize past and present responses to issues of asylum, reflect on the state of being stateless, draw parallels between the United States and Austria, and resonate deeply with our own contemporary geopolitical landscape.

Blossoms in Snow collects poems by Rose Ausländer, Hermann Broch, Mimi Grossberg, and over thirty other refugees who escaped Nazi Austria.

University of New Orleans Press
Studies in Central European History, Culture, & Literature
Edited by Günter Bischof