“The scent of plums detaches from the blossoms and leaves off in the distance,” the veteran samurai speaks in poeticized emotion, and Mariko responds. “My mind is drawn to the distant ...

His bleak but blackly comic portrayal of modern, rural Ireland courts debate with its dark farce, caricatures of violence and barbarism, and an exaggerated, poeticized dialect of Hiberno-English. “The ...

1When Nelly Sachs boarded a plane on the 12th of May 1940, leaving Berlin from Tempelhof Flughafen, she left a country that had been her home for almost 50 years.1 She was born in Berlin in December ...