Jill Alexander Essbaum, "Zürich Hauptbahnhof" (2020)

Editorial Notes

This poem is a sonnet (i.e. a fourteen-line poem structured according to certain poetic conventions).
The use of the word "Brötli" is one of the relatively few examples of Swiss German in Anglophone poetry,

Places Referenced

Lindenhof

Main Station (HB)

Figures & Themes

German

Weiterführende Informationen

Essbaum, Jill Alexander. “Zürich Hauptbahnhof.” Would-Land. San Diego: Cooper Dillon Books, 2020. 10.

Martin Mühlheim

UZH English Department, Plattenstrasse 47, CH-8032 Zürich, Switzerland