A comprehensive English-language edition of verse by the Austrian poet An undeniable aura surrounds the name of Georg Trakl, a poet of intense inner vision and originality whose work stands alongside that of Yeats, Valéry, and T. S. Eliot. Besides Rilke, his more famous admirers include Karl Kraus and Martin Heidegger. The distinctive tone of Trakl's work-especially admired by his patron Ludwig Wittgenstein-is autumnal and melancholy. Trakl was writing at a time of spiritual and social disintegration on the eve of the First World War, when personal values and perceptions tended to be subsumed in a more generalized anguish and exaltation. Neo-romantic, early modernist, his rich, vitally sensuous poetry can be seen to mark the transition from impressionism to expressionism, but at the same time transcends such categories. Trakl's poetry has previously only been available in English in short selections or in anthologies. This bilingual edition, the most comprehensive to date, gives readers the chance to get to know Trakl's work more fully than ever before.

Poems and Prose: A Bilingual Edition (European Poetry Classics)

Literature & Fiction

Trakl, Georg

Poetry

Northwestern University Press

The work of poet Georg Trakl, a leading Austrian-German expressionist, has been praised by many, including his contemporaries Rainer Maria Rilke and Else Lasker-Schüler, as well as his patron Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein famously wrote that while he did not truly understand Trakl’s poems, they had the tone of a “truly ingenious person,” which pleased him. This difficulty in understanding Trakl’s poems is not unique. Since the first publication of his work in 1913, there has been endless discussion about how the verses should be understood, leading to controversies over the most accurate way to translate them. This new translation, the first book in a three-volume collection of Trakl's work, marks the hundredth anniversary of Trakl’s death during the first months of World War I. In a refreshing contrast to previous translated collections of Trakl’s work, James Reidel is mindful of how the poet himself wished to be read, emphasizing the order and content of the verses to achieve a musical effect. Trakl’s verses were also marked by allegiance to both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a fact which Reidel honors with impressive research into the historicity of the poet’s language. Poems sets itself apart as the best translation of Trakl available today and will introduce English readers to the powerful verses of this wartime poet.

Poems: Book One of Our Trakl (The German List)

Seagull Books

The second book in Seagull’s ambitious series of Georg Trakl’s works, Sebastian Dreaming was the second, and final, collection prepared for publication by Trakl himself. Published after his death, it was perhaps even tied to it: forced into a military hospital by the psychological trauma of his World War I experiences, the Austrian poet requested that his publisher send him proofs of the book. He waited a week, and then overdosed on cocaine. A century later, the book appears for the first time in English. While a number of its poems have been included in other collections, translator James Reidel argues that this particular book deserves to stand on its own and be read as one piece, as Trakl intended. Only by doing this can we begin to see Trakl in his proper time and place, as an early modern poet whose words nonetheless continue to exert a powerful hold on us while we make our way through a new, uncharted century.

Sebastian Dreaming (The German List)

The work of poet Georg Trakl, a leading Austrian-German expressionist, has been praised by many, including his contemporaries Rainer Maria Rilke and Else Lasker-Schüler, as well as his patron Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein famously wrote that while he did not truly understand Trakl’s poems, they had the tone of a “truly ingenious person,” which pleased him.A Skeleton Plays Violin comprises the final volume in a trilogy of works by Trakl published by Seagull Books. This selection gathers Trakl’s early, middle, and late work, none of it published in book form during his lifetime. The work here ranges widely, from his haunting prose pieces to his darkly beautiful poems documenting the first bloody weeks of World War I on the Eastern Front.   Book Three of Our Trakl—the series that began with Trakl’s first book Poems and his posthumously published Sebastian Dreaming—also includes translations of unpublished poems and significant variants. Interpolated throughout this comprehensive and chronological selection is a biographical essay that provides more information about Trakl’s gifted and troubled life, especially as it relates to his poetry, as well as the necessary context of his relationship with his favorite sibling, his sister Grete, whose role as a muse to her brother is still highly controversial. Trakl’s life was mysterious and fascinating, a fact reflected in his work. A Skeleton Plays Violin should not be missed.  

A Skeleton Plays Violin: Book Three of Our Trakl (The German List)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

<div>The work of poet Georg Trakl, a leading Austrian-German expressionist, has been praised by many, including his contemporaries Rainer Maria Rilke and Else Lasker-Schüler, as well as his patron Ludwig Wittgenstein, who famously wrote that while he did not truly understand Trakl's poems, they had the tone of a "truly ingenious person," which pleased him. This difficulty in understanding Trakl's poems is not unique. Since the first publication of his work in 1913, there has been endless discussion about how the verses should be understood, leading to controversies over the most accurate way to translate them. In a refreshing contrast to previous translated collections of Trakl's work, James Reidel is mindful of how the poet himself wished to be read, emphasizing the order and content of the verses to achieve a musical effect. Trakl's verses were also marked by allegiance to both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a fact which Reidel honors with impressive research into the historicity of the poet's language. Collected Poems gathers Trakl's early, middle, and late work, ranging widely, from his haunting prose pieces to his darkly beautiful poems documenting the first bloody weeks of World War I on the Eastern Front.&nbsp;</div>

Collected Poems (The German List)

The influential German poet presents forty-seven poems characterized by an intensely personal point of view and a deeply psychological nature and presented in both English and German

Song of the West: Selected Poems (English, German and German Edition)

North Point Pr

Dark Seasons: A Selection of Georg Trakl Poems

SKELTON, Robin

Broken Jaw Pr

Text in Persian. Persian translation of accursed Austrian poet.

The Golden Goblet: Selected Poems of Georg Trakl (1887-1914)

Ibex Pub

The name of Rainer Maria Rilke is familiar to many English readers, and that of Georg Trakl only somewhat less so. But the age during which these two poets lived was one marked by many other worthy poets in the German language. This book, then, seeks to give these other figures, several of them women, the wider audience they deserve, while also showcasing their own—as well as Rilke’s and Trakl’s, keen and sensitive responses to nature throughout the seasons of the year.Other poets featured include Paul Boldt, Theodor Däubler, Max Dauthendey, Paula Dehmel, Richard Dehmel, Felix Dörmann, Stefan George, Georg Heym, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Friederike Kempner, Hedwig Lachmann, Detlev von Liliencron, Ernst Wilhelm Lotz, Emerenz Meier, Clara Müller-Jahnke, Alfons Petzold, Gustav Renner, Joachim Ringelnatz, Anna Ritter, Heinrich Seidel, Ernst Stadler, Josef Weinheber, Maria Luise Weissmann, and Paul Zech.

Songs for the Seasons: Poems of Rilke and His Age (Neglected Voices)

RILKE, RAINER MARIA

Hofmannsthal, Hugo Von

Heym, Georg

George et al, Stefan

Literary

Cedar Springs Books

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Poems and Prose: A Bilingual Edition (European Poetry Classics)

Poems: Book One of Our Trakl (The German List)

Sebastian Dreaming (The German List)

A Skeleton Plays Violin: Book Three of Our Trakl (The German List)

Collected Poems (The German List)

Song of the West: Selected Poems (English, German and German Edition)

Song of the West: Selected Poems (English, German and German Edition)

Dark Seasons: A Selection of Georg Trakl Poems

The Golden Goblet: Selected Poems of Georg Trakl (1887-1914)

Songs for the Seasons: Poems of Rilke and His Age (Neglected Voices)