Uncollected Later Poems (19681979)

Ernst Meister author Samuel Frederick translator Graham Foust translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Wave Books

Published:21st Dec '23

Should be back in stock very soon

Uncollected Later Poems (19681979) cover

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. 

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 Wallless Space—provide expansive access to Meister’s late work, Uncollected Later Poems (1968–1979) delivers granular, endlessly rewarding profundities.  

Poetry translation is such tricky and unappreciated work—“translation is impossible,” Graham Foust and Samuel Frederick declare in their introduction to a volume of Ernst Meister's work in which they've performed that exact miracle. —Arielle Greenberg, American Poetry Review

Like his subject matter, Meister’s writing is ominous, intangible, and inescapable. —Publishers Weekly

Meister compacts a meditation on the nature of space, nothingness and our interaction with the two in the work’s sparse, dense lines. —Lindsay Choi, The Daily Californian

ISBN: 9781950268894

Dimensions: 139mm x 203mm x 6mm

Weight: unknown

64 pages