A History of Clouds: 99 Meditations

Hans Magnus Enzensberger celebrates the tenacity of normality in everyday life, where the survival of the objects we use sithout thinking -a pair of scissors, perhaps- is both the victory of the unheroic and a reminder of our own transitoriness. The poems, laconic and conversational, sceptical and and serene, culminate in the extended set of observations which gives the collection its title.