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PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE LEGENDARY FREEDOM FIGHTER --- [2] p., p. VII, [1], 220, [2] p. | 210 x 125 mm --- First edition of the Frisian freedom fighter's first book, a collection of poetry whose title might translate as Blossoms of a Young Traveler. It's an apt title. Harring muses on his journeys, his poetry often grounded in places close to home—Denmark and Germany—but ranging as far afield as Norway and Switzerland. Also as the title promises, the idea of youth permeates the entirety. There's much on art, too (p. 20: "Art—it is divine; not idle trumpery!"), with poems like "The Dresden Artists' Society" and "Artist's Youth," and another on Raphael's Sistine Madonna. And we get to see some of the revolutionary fervor that, along with travel, came to define Harring's life. "The word is free, the thought is free—and freedom breaks every bond in two," he writes in his untitled introductory poem. "Sing—and look the world in the face—and pay no heed to the enemy's threats!"… Read More