Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the German by Nan Watkins. This is the first English translation of the last poems of Yvan Goll, one of the twentieth century's finest European poets."In these magnificent and stirring last poems, the great Yvan Goll is recording nothing less than the disintegration of the European soul, using the intellectual resources of a highly influential and cosmopolitan imagination. One of the finest and most revered poets of the twentieth century, Goll receives the tender treatment he deserves in these remarkably vivid and masterful translations."—Keith Flynn

Dreamweed: Posthumous Poems

Literature & Fiction

Goll, Yvan

Poetry

Black Lawrence Press

Love Poems By Goll

Goll, Claire

Literary

Literary Licensing, LLC

Published in France in 1951 and appearing here for the first time in exquisite English translations that capture the poignancy of the originals, this volume also reproduces the eight drawing by Marc Chagall that appeared in the original, many of them of the poets themselves. The poems move back and forth between the two poets, creating an intimate yet universal conversation between two people who knew they had found their soulmate. “Unlike the Surrealists, Goll loved a real woman, who was an unchanging presence in his life . . . it may well be that Goll will be remembered for these poems. Their simple visionary grace, the ease with which they build a spiritual moment out of commonplace, almost conventional, images, make the love poems unique in modern poetry.”—Paul Zweig

10,000 Dawns: The Love Poems of Claire and Yvan Goll (Companions for the Journey)

White Pine Press

The First Manifesto of Surrealism (Publisher's Choice)

Arts & Photography

Firrell, Martin

History & Criticism

Cambridge Queer Press

Yvan Goll (1891-1950), a poet of many talents and many languages, his journal Surréalism (1924) was the first to feature surrealist work much to the chagrin of Andre Breton. A Jewish intellectual living in NYC during World War II, much of his French language poetry, including Landless John, was translated into English by various hands including William Carlos Williams, W.S. Merwin and Galway Kinnell. He was the first to translate Aimé Césaire’s Notebook into English. Near his death, he wrote a large number of love poems addressed to his wife Claire. Some were published as Dream Weed / Traumkraut, Goll’s work best known to English readers, others are to be found in Neila, a work of restless paranoia and gripping intensity, translated here into English for the first time.

Neila, Evening Song: Last Poems of Yvan Goll

Spuyten Duyvil Publishing

"Goll was in the avant-garde of various literary scenes. A central figure in the German world of Dada and Expressionism in Berlin; a founder alongside Eulard and Apollinaire of the French Surrealist movement in Paris; friend and collaborator with Picasso, Leger, Dali, Braque, Chagall, Tanguy and James Joyce; playwright and precursor to Ionesco's "Theatre of the Absurd," and Artaud's "Theatre of Cruelty"; the celebrated editor of Hemispheres magazine in the U.S. and friends of William Carlos Williams, James Laughlin of New Directions, and Kenneth and Miriam Patchen, among others."

The Inner Trees: Selected Poems of Yvan Goll

»Nur einmal noch werd ich dir untreu sein«: Briefwechsel und Aufzeichnungen 1917-1966

Ludwig, Paula

Wallstein Verlag GmbH

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