Today I'm reading my translations of Ernst Toller's Poems of the Imprisoned, which you can download here, and following that I read the original German, which you can find here.

Keep an eye out for my discussion of this work with Roy over on the Marxist Poetry podcast!

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TIMESTAMPS???

04:47 Poems of the Imprisoned, epigraphs

06:10 Sleepless Night

06:56 Search and Capture

07:49 Woods

08:48 Walk of the Convicts

09:38 Encounter in the Cell

10:30 Song of Solitude

11:26 Girls Imprisoned

12:15 Smokestacks at Dawn

13:08 The Wall of the Executed

14:07 The Prisoner and Death

16:11 Paths to the World

17:04 A Pregnant Girl in the Compound

17:52 Dusk

18:51 To Linger at Midnight

19:39 Nights

20:28 November

21:28 A Prisoner Reaches a Hand to Death

22:26 Visitor

23:22 Collective Confinement

24:19 Discharged Convicts

25:16 Our Way

26:49 Gedichte der Gefangenen

28:18 Schlaflose Nacht

29:23 Durchsuchung und Fesselung

30:24 Wälder

31:35 Spaziergang der Sträflinge

32:47 Begegnung in der Zelle

33:52 Lied der Einsamkeit

34:55 Gefangene Mädchen

36:03 Fabrikschornsteine am Vormorgen

37:07 Die Mauer der Geschossenen

38:16 Der Gefangene und der Tot

40:44 Pfade zur Welt

41:50 Schwangeres Mädchen auf der Gefängnishof

42:58 Dämmerung

44:10 Verweilen um Mitternacht

45:18 Nächte

46:09 November

47:33 Ein Gefangene reicht dem Tod die Hand

48:59: Besucher

50:01 Gemeinsame Haft

51:11 Entlassene Sträflinge

52:31 Unser Weg