"Else Lasker-Schüler's poems are small red fires of passion in a time of total darkness. At great cost, she rescued her innocence from the brutality of the Nazi age and tested the resilience of her Jewish soul. In these translations, Janine Canan renders into English both the lyrical intensity of that endeavor, and the palpable danger and mystery that made it possible. This is travel at root-level."-Andrei Codrescu
Night Secret
I have chosen you among all these stars.
Am awake, a listening flower in the buzzing bush.
Our lips long to make honey, our shimmering nights are in full bloom.
From your body's holy spark my heart lights its heaven.
All my dreams hang from your gold. I have chosen you among all these stars.

Star in My Forehead

Literature & Fiction

Else Lasker-Schüler

Poetry

Holy Cow! Press

Else Lasker-Schuler was a leading Expressionist poet and one of the most prominent women writers of the early 20th century. She has been described by Karl Kraus as "the greatest lyric poet of modern Germany." Lasker-Schuler lived the life of a bohemian, sharing the artistic milieu of post World War I Berlin with friends such as Franz Marc and Gottfried Benn. When the Nazi government took power, Lasker-Schuler, witnessing soldiers attacking a Jewish apartment, immediately boarded a train to leave Germany. After short stays in other parts of Europe, her last years were spent in Israel, where she aligned herself with experimental writers celebrating their Jewish heritage. Else Lasker-Schuler's (1869-1945) most noted collections are "Hebrew Ballads" (1913) and "My Blue Piano" (1943).

Selected Poems (Sun & Moon Classics, 179)

Sun Moon Pr

Mein Herz

dtv - Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag

Konzert.

Suhrkamp

Theben, Vorzugsausg.

Jüdischer Verlag im Suhrkamp Verlag

Der Blaue Reiter prasentiert Eurer Hoheit sein Blaues Pferd. Franz Marc / Else Lasker- Schuler: Karten und Briefe.

Reference

Franz Marc - Else Lasker-Schüler

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Prestel

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