Autumn Sonata: Selected Poems of Georg Trakl

Autumn Sonata: Selected Poems of Georg Trakl image
ISBN-10:

0918825946

ISBN-13:

9780918825940

Author(s): Trakl, Georg
Released: Jan 01, 1989
Publisher: Moyer Bell
Format: Paperback, 135 pages
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Description:

Georg Trakl's poems are considered some of the most difficult for any translator to tackle; his German is dense and sometimes almost impenetrable. Daniel Simko's collection Autumn Sonata, has been lauded for the "simplicity and directness" of its translations, accomplished with out sacrificing the drama of Trakl's rich imagery.Suffering from manic depressive episodes and haunted by his experiences tending the wounded and dying during World War One, Trakl's poems reflect a sense of lostness: nightmare visions and disembodied voices provide an often eccentric perspective of reality. Though he yearns for deliverance, there poems do not anticipate it. Instead, they map the interior landscape of a brilliant, though troubled, spirit.












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