The German poetry has certainly less variety than the French; but it speaks of life, and is not life, in its depth and essence, ... Let not mine eyes, my heart, behold you!

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TORONTO — British translator Karen Leeder and German poet Durs Grünbein have won the Griffin Poetry Prize for "Psyche Running," a collection of his poems over the last two decades.

Twentieth Century German Poetry, . . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $40 (511pp) ISBN 978-0-374-10535-8 ...