In the Land of Punctuation
Morgenstern, Christian / Ramanathan, Rathna / Rao, Sirish First published in 1905, German poet Christian Morgenstern's "Im Reich der Interpunktionen" (In the Land of Punctuation) is a comic poem on the flow of landuage - and the breaks in it. Punctuations signs are markers of pauses, interruptions, asides and stops. But they also point to intonation, intent and emotion. a fact used brilliantly by Morgenstern to turn them into characters with their own agendas, in a drama that careens toward an inevit...