Was Not the Right Stuff for Their Wars

The poet, prose writer, and radio journalist Rolf Haufs (1935–2013) was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, and died at the age of 77 in Berlin. Many of his later poems concern the war-time and its aftermath. The poems in AGNI 76 belong to the third and last part of Haufs’s collection Tanzstunde auf See (Hanser Verlag).

Christopher Middleton’s most recent poetry collections are Just Look at the Dancers (2012) and A Company of Ghosts (2011), both from Sheep Meadow Press. He has published many translations, including the new Robert Walser collection Thirty Poems (New Directions). (updated 10/2012)