Denn mein Herz ist frisch gebrochen

Dorothy Parker embodies everything commonly associated with New York: restlessness and modernity, spirit and success, but also hardness, cruelty, and loneliness. Dorothy Parker is the quintessential New York writer. Her poems are always a interplay of wit and melancholy, of sorrow and jest, of pathos and mockery. Just like her stories, her poetry is characterized by a distinctive mix of self-pity and cynicism. She avoids slipping into kitsch through brashness and irony.