Porcelain: Poem on the Downfall of My City () is a 2005 poetry collection by the German writer Durs Grünbein. It consists of 49 poems about the city of Dresden, lamenting its developments and destruction in February 1945 when the Allies of World War II subjected it to heavy aerial bombardment.
The English interpretation by Karen Leeder received the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for 2021.
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External links Suhrkamp Verlag Chicago University Press Seagull Books