Georg Trakl

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Song of the Departed: Selected Poems of Georg TraklPaperback, 5 June 2012

Song of the Departed: Selected Poems of Georg Trakl
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Print Length
243 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Date Published
5 Jun 2012
ISBN-10
1556593732
ISBN-13
9781556593734

Description

Trakl's poetry is amazing. His reader is gifted with visions of a darker world, an autumnal place of surreal beauty and a dying splendor. It is not a world friendly to people--it is full of death, desolation, and decay, strange creatures and arcane gods. But it is beautiful nonetheless. Hauntingly beautiful.--Chris Faatz, Powells.com

I do not understand them; but their tone pleases me. It is the tone of true genius.--Ludwig Wittgenstein

Song of the Departed brings back into print poems written at the height of Georg Trakl's career. Trakl boldly confronted the conflicts created by the pursuit of truth amidst the fallenness of the human condition, writing of the unspeakable that lies beyond language, creating poetry that is intensely personal and eerily beautiful. Included in this revised edition are several new translations and an introduction by the translator.

All roads disgorge to black decay.
Beneath the golden boughs of night and stars
The sister's shadow flutters through the silent grove
To greet the spirits of the heroes, bleeding heads.
And softly in the reeds drone the dark flutes of autumn.
O prouder grief! you brazen altars;
Tonight a mighty anguish feeds the hot flame of spirit:
Unborn grandchildren.

Georg Trakl was born in Austria in 1887. He served as a medical officer during World War I. As a lyric poet, he set a dark, introspective tone that deeply influenced the course of German expressionism. He died in 1914 after an overdose of cocaine.

Product Details

Author:
Georg Trakl
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
5 June 2012
Dimensions:
18.8 x 13.72 x 2.03 cm
ISBN-10:
1556593732
ISBN-13:
9781556593734
Language:
English
Pages:
243
Weight:
294.83 gm

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