Of Entirety Say the Sentence

"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 verse—assonance, alliteration, rhyme, anaphora—without 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 Meister—and 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.