`If the recent German Zeitgeist could speak, it might sound a good deal like Michael
Kruger,' Richard Dove writes in his introduction to Diderot's Cat, the first comprehensive selection of Kruger's poems in English. The poems are drawn from thirteen collections published over the last two decades of uneasy peace and momentous change.
 
Michael Kruger was born in Saxony in 1943, grew up in Berlin, and has lived for more than twenty years in Munich. Although a prose-writer, publisher, essayist and critic of note, and also the editor of the important German literary magazine Akzente, he is best known in his own country as a poet.