Yvan Goll’s Jean Sans Terre is a collection of five books of interrelated poems written over eight years (from 1936 to 1944). Goll maps the anguish of dispossession, the suffering and distress of the alienated human individual suffering the worst… Read More ›
Yvan Goll biography
Analysis of Yvan Goll’s Dream Grass
Yvan Goll’s Dream Grass (Traumkraut) celebrates the poet’s love for his wife, Claire. The emotional pitch of the collection, published a year after his death, reflects the trauma of the poet’s struggle with leukemia, which took his life in 1950…. Read More ›