In Time's Rift (Im Zeitspalt) - Softcover

Meister, Ernst

Softcover

ISBN 10: 193351762X ISBN 13: 9781933517629

Verlag: Wave Books, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Though he wrote from outside the literary circles of his time, Ernst Meister received accolades for his poetry, including Germany's most prestigious poetry prize, the George Buchner Prize. He is frequently compared to Paul Celan, and was influenced by philosophical luminaries as Heidegger, Nietzche, Shopenhauer, Hegel.

Meister's work is not well-known in the US; this book will be the first full-length translation of a Meister collection in English.

His concerns find affinity in those of Wallace Stevens and Robert Creeley, though experientially the poems are akin to Emily Dickinson's in the way they both "entice and irritate" the mouth and mind.

Meister's work uniquely creates an emotional space in which to engage the existential/philosophical questions of being. It rides the momentum of recent heightened interest in Celan's late work.

Translator Graham Foust is an esteemed Bay Area poet with an established fan base. Translator Samuel Frederick is a noted German scholar.

Foust & Frederick were participants in Wave's 2011 translation festival, where their presentations were among the most popular.

The original poems, in German, will face the English translations.

This book holds diverse appeal: to those interested in philosophy, existential questions, lyrical density, Objectivism, & international literature.

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Ernst Meister (1911-1979) was born in Hagen, Germany, and studied first theology, then literature, art history, and philosophy (the latter under Karl Löwith and Hans-Georg Gadamer) at various German universities. After the publication of his first book in 1932, he published no poetry for two decades, a silent spell that ultimately gave way to the prolific last third of his life, over the course of which he produced more than sixteen volumes of verse as well as numerous other literary and visual works. Often compared to Paul Celan because of the brevity and difficulty of his poems, Meister tends toward a more abstract existentialism that renders his work both intensely emotional and inimitably strange. Having written outside the dominant literary circles of his time, he remains relatively unknown, though he was posthumously awarded the most prestigious award for German literature, the Georg Büchner Prize, having been informed of the honor just days before his death.

Graham Foust is the author of several collections of poetry, including A Mouth in California (Flood Editions, 2009). 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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wave Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 193351762X
• ISBN 13: 9781933517629
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 104
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: GPSR Kontakt; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Deutschland