Linda Marianiello here translates into English for the first time Dieter K hn's highly praised and definitive biography of one of Germany's greatest poets, Gertrud Kolmar. Kolmar carried German-language poetry to new heights, speaking truth in a time when many poets collapsed in the face of increasing Nazi repression. Born Gertrud K the Chodziesner in Berlin in 1894, she completed her first collection, Poems, in 1917. She took her pen name,...