Documents of protest and compassion

Supplementing recent anthologies of his poetry and essays on his life and work, Arend (German, U. of Victoria) critically assesses Bauer's (1904-76) poetry. He moved from Germany to Canada in 1952 and proceeded to bootstrap himself from dishwasher to university professor. She draws on his diaries and letters and finds profoundly humane intentions behind his themes and structures. She does not translate the quotations from German. Canadian card order number: C99- 900807-2. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR