Not Orpheus: Selected Poems (Poetry Pleiade)

Literature & Fiction

Meister, Ernst

Poetry

Carcanet Press

"Meister's work is mesmerizingly succinct and elusive, but also ambitious to a degree almost unheard-of among presently-observed aesthetic moments. Highly recommended."—The Huffington Post"Foust and Frederick have done us all a great favor. Meister's poetry could have been lost in the rift of time that he wrote so elegantly about."—The Rumpus"A good, interesting collection, in a solid translation. . . . In Time's Rift is a welcome volume and certainly suggests that Meister is a significant poet deserving greater attention."—Complete ReviewWallless Space is a translation of German poet Ernst Meister's final collection and the last of the informal trilogy which also includes In Time's Rift (Wave Books, 2012) and Of Entirety Say the Sentence (Wave, forthcoming 2015). Meister's poems are brief but dense, intense but playful; obsessed with mortality and the intersections of the everyday and the infinite.There's nary a Maker,there's nary a witness,there's only Nature,who brings herselfabout herself, she alone—and I'msupposedly lonelyin her?Ernst Meister (1911–79) was born in Hagen, Germany. He was posthumously awarded the most prestigious award for German literature, the Georg Büchner Prize.Graham Foust is the author of several collections of poetry, including To Anacreon in Heaven and Other Poems (Flood Editions, April 2013). He teaches at the University of Denver.Samuel Frederick is the author of Narratives Unsettled: Digression in Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert Stifter (Northwestern University Press, 2012). He is an assistant professor of German at the Pennsylvania State University.

Wallless Space

Wave Books

In these skillful new translations by poet Graham Foust and scholar Samuel Frederick, whose work has previously been shortlisted for the National Translation Award in Poetry, each line is gnomic yet ample, opening spaces of reflection on mortality and infinity.&nbsp; Now preserved in this portable, English-language volume, these poems from Georg Büchner Prize winner Ernst Meister's last decade are oracular and entrancing. While the collections previously published by Wave--Of Entirety Say the Sentence, In Time's Rift, and&nbsp;Wallless Space--provide expansive access to Meister's late work,&nbsp;Uncollected Later Poems&nbsp;(1968-1979)&nbsp;delivers granular, endlessly rewarding profundities.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Uncollected Later Poems (1968–1979)

Ausgewählte Gedichte: 1932-1979 (Sammlung Luchterhand ; 244) (German Edition)

Luchterhand

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