Of Entirety Say the Sentence
Hardback Published on: 19/11/2015; Language: English, German
Price: £17.99
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Synopsis
"Like his subject matter Meister's writing is ominous, intangible and inescapable."*Publishers Weekly*
"The translators of *Wallless Space* were brave to take on Meister's dense and unusual poetry, and so far their work has been excellent. . . . Foust and Frederick have preserved the phonetic elements of Meister's verseassonance, alliteration, rhyme, anaphorawithout sacrificing the poet's distilled diction and powerfully short dimeter and trimeter lines."Christopher Shannon, *Words Without Borders*
One of the last books by post-war German poet and Georg Büchner Prize winner Ernst Meisterand the third to be translated into English by poet Graham Foust and scholar Samuel Frederick*Of Entirety Say the Sentence* is his most expansive book. With rich allusions to Hölderlin and Celan, these poems are staggering in their scope of mortality, time, and infinity.
*Mankind
has his song to sing,
and even though I am
shaken by the world's silence,
I don't want to fling anything
over the crown of his head.*
**Ernst Meister** (1911-1979) 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.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Wave Books
- ISBN: 9781940696164
- Dimensions: 229 x 140 x 23 mm
- Weight: 425g
- Languages: English, German
