These Numbered Days by Peter Huchel Nine Arches Press Black Sun confronts the dark

Black Sun confronts the dark dreams and hidden powers of this world

combining old craftsmanship and daring innovation

a generation characterised by challenging the entrenched conformism of thought and action

Letting go of places and people is a key theme

These Numbered Days by Peter Huchel Nine Arches Press Black Sun confronts the darkWith Brecht, Benn, Bobrowski and Celan, Peter Huchel is one of a handful of essential post war poets in the German language. A precise observer of natural phenomena, Huchel is above all a realist whose metaphors take us deep into the social and historical landscape, into zones of devastation and despair, the zero hour of isolation. His world is devoid of illusion or sentimentality; there is no redemption, at most an exactitude that is itself a