<b>August Sander’s photographic portraits of ordinary people in Weimar Germany inspire this uncanny new collection of poems by one of America’s most celebrated writers and critics</b><br><br>Through his portraits of ordinary people—soldiers, housewives, children, peasants, and city dwellers—August Sander, the German photographer whose work chronicled the extreme tensions and transitions of the twentieth century, captured a moment in history whose consequences he himself couldn’t have predicted. Using these photographs as a lens, Adam Kirsch’s poems connect&nbsp;the legacy of the First World War with the turmoil of the Weimar Republic with moving immediacy and meditative insight, and&nbsp;foreshadow the Nazi era.&nbsp;Kirsch writes both urgently and poignantly about these photographs, creating a unique dialogue of word and image&nbsp;that will speak to all readers interested in history, past and present.