Documents of protest and compassion

"Documents of Protest and Compassion offers the first extensive critical assessment of Walter Bauer's considerable poetic oeuvre. In this long-overdue supplement to recent anthologies of Bauer's poetry and essays on his life and work, Angelika Arend draws on Bauer's diaries and letters to reveal the profoundly humane intentions that guided his choice of themes and structures.

She shows how Bauer's simple, yet carefully crafted poems were mainly concerned with social protest and brotherly compassion, shared responsibility, and critical self-reflection."--BOOK JACKET.