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Kiosk (poetry collection)

Kiosk is a 1995 poetry collection by the German writer Hans Magnus Enzensberger.

Summary

The book is divided into four parts, titled "Historical Patchwork" (), "Mixed Feelings" (), "Diversions under the Cranium" () and "In Suspense" (). They are connected by the longer poem "Flight of Ideas" (), which is split into four parts spread around the book.

Publication

Suhrkamp Verlag published Kiosk in German on 7 March 1995. Sheep Meadow Press published an English interpretation by Michael Hamburger in 1999.

Publishers Weekly wrote that Enzensberger is "a master of deflating senses of middle-class accomplishment, his own often foremost among them", but that Kiosk presents a more forgiving side of him, where he allows more free "observations and speculations on nature, evolution and mind".

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