Junge Pferde! Junge Pferde!

In the fevered landscape of German Expressionism, Paul Boldt wrote poems that roared with youthful exuberance and raw sensuality, capturing life at its most intense and fleeting. 'Junge Pferde! Junge Pferde!' is not merely a collection but a dispatch from the edge of experience, where horses thunder across meadows like heartbeat, where desire and despair intertwine, and where every moment burns with urgent significance. Boldt's work possesses the intoxicating quality Peter Rühmkorf described: intoxicating, erotomaniacal, oppressive, and joyful all at once. Yet this collection carries a particular tragedy. The iconic opening cry became so famous it eclipsed everything else Boldt ever wrote. Marcel Reich-Ranicki may have crowned these Expressionist poems as canonical, but the world largely forgot the man who wrote them. Peter Härtling wondered why Boldt never became the mythic figure he would have been in France. This book is your chance to discover what was lost: a complete body of work that matches the famous line's power, waiting to be found beneath its own shadow.