Seasonal Time Change
Selected Poems
Distributed for Seagull Books
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
I.
My Desk in Allmanshausen
Not a Haiku
Postcard, May 2012
Three Winds, Pentecost
May
Near Münsing
Long Conversation
Crow-Eater
I Cannot Divine What it Meaneth
Wooden House
Happiness
Walk in the Woods
A Friend
Twilight
The Last Day of August
The Death of the Birch, 2011
Old Man under an Apple Tree
Nights on the Terrace
Photo Album
Memory from School
Class Reunion
Poem
Peripheral Symptoms of War
II.
In the Negev
Hotel Malibran, Venice
Hotel Near Erfurt
Message, 2012
Hotel Europa
Enlightenment
Flight to Istanbul
Harry Mulisch
Hotel Il Patriarca
Shame
After the Rain
Before the Storm
Street Scene in a Foreign City
Russian Cash
Four Lines for Lalla
Cinnamon
On Seagulls
Countryside Cafe
National Museum in Calcutta
India—Seven Postcards
Programme Poetry
The Hedgehog
How Poems Happen
Sleepless
Copyright
III.
Old Wooden House
A Poet
(Untitled)
In the Uckermark
Lentils in New York
Almost Nothing
Lost Time
Written from the Heart
Istanbul Revisited
Old Well
Diel
Walking, Slightly Moved
Czeslaw, Milosz
Translating
Outdated
What Still Has to be Done!
Antonio Tabucchi is Dead
Literarisches Colloquium, Berlin
Nicolas Born
Claude Simon
A Reminder
Whodunnit?
A Mirror
Tidying Up
In the Shed
IV.
Snow
New Year, 2012
New Year
Winter
Wretched Apples in February
Snow Dreamer
Dreamings
Palm Sunday, 2012
Seedlings
Beach Cafe
Short Trip
Summerhouse at Easter
The Current State of Affairs, 2012
At the Lake
Near Boston, at the Sea
Expecting Rain
Autumn
At the Baltic Sea, Very Early
Chiusi, Terre di Siena
The Spider and I
The Blackbird
Early Sun in the South
Cutting Grass
End of the Summer
Reverie
Still Pool
Clearing
Notes
My Desk in Allmanshausen
Not a Haiku
Postcard, May 2012
Three Winds, Pentecost
May
Near Münsing
Long Conversation
Crow-Eater
I Cannot Divine What it Meaneth
Wooden House
Happiness
Walk in the Woods
A Friend
Twilight
The Last Day of August
The Death of the Birch, 2011
Old Man under an Apple Tree
Nights on the Terrace
Photo Album
Memory from School
Class Reunion
Poem
Peripheral Symptoms of War
II.
In the Negev
Hotel Malibran, Venice
Hotel Near Erfurt
Message, 2012
Hotel Europa
Enlightenment
Flight to Istanbul
Harry Mulisch
Hotel Il Patriarca
Shame
After the Rain
Before the Storm
Street Scene in a Foreign City
Russian Cash
Four Lines for Lalla
Cinnamon
On Seagulls
Countryside Cafe
National Museum in Calcutta
India—Seven Postcards
Programme Poetry
The Hedgehog
How Poems Happen
Sleepless
Copyright
III.
Old Wooden House
A Poet
(Untitled)
In the Uckermark
Lentils in New York
Almost Nothing
Lost Time
Written from the Heart
Istanbul Revisited
Old Well
Diel
Walking, Slightly Moved
Czeslaw, Milosz
Translating
Outdated
What Still Has to be Done!
Antonio Tabucchi is Dead
Literarisches Colloquium, Berlin
Nicolas Born
Claude Simon
A Reminder
Whodunnit?
A Mirror
Tidying Up
In the Shed
IV.
Snow
New Year, 2012
New Year
Winter
Wretched Apples in February
Snow Dreamer
Dreamings
Palm Sunday, 2012
Seedlings
Beach Cafe
Short Trip
Summerhouse at Easter
The Current State of Affairs, 2012
At the Lake
Near Boston, at the Sea
Expecting Rain
Autumn
At the Baltic Sea, Very Early
Chiusi, Terre di Siena
The Spider and I
The Blackbird
Early Sun in the South
Cutting Grass
End of the Summer
Reverie
Still Pool
Clearing
Notes
Review Quotes
Rain Taxi
“Seasonal Time Change: Selected Poems, Kruger’s latest book to be translated and published in English, presents almost exclusively short poems in which the beauty and iniquities of nature often mirror the unvarnished ironies of human endeavor, and is an accessible, excellent introduction to Kruger’s poetry for an American readership. Most poems in Seasonal Time Change are well under a page, precise in image, deft, witty, and wryly jaundiced in their view of the poet’s world caught between a desultory urban idyll and nature’s unsentimental image.”
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