Description
"Meister's work is mesmerizingly succinct and elusive, but also ambitious to a degree almost unheard-of among presently-observed aesthetic moments. Highly recommended."--The Huffington Post "Foust and Frederick have done us all a great favor. Meister's poetry could have been lost in the rift of time that he wrote so elegantly about."--The Rumpus "A good, interesting collection, in a solid translation...In Time's Rift is a welcome volume and certainly suggests that Meister is a significant poet deserving greater attention."--Complete Review Wallless Space is a translation of German poet Ernst Meister's final collection and the last of the informal trilogy which also includes In Time's Rift (Wave Books, 2012) and Of Entirety Say the Sentence (Wave, forthcoming 2015). Meister's poems are brief but dense, intense but playful; obsessed with mortality and the intersections of the everyday and the infinite. There's nary a Maker, there's nary a witness, there's only Nature, who brings herself about herself, she alone-- and I'm supposedly lonely in her? Ernst Meister (1911--79) was born in Hagen, Germany. He was posthumously awarded the most prestigious award for German literature, the Georg Buchner Prize. Graham Foust is the author of several collections of poetry, including To Anacreon in Heaven and Other Poems (Flood Editions, April 2013). He teaches at the University of Denver. Samuel Frederick is the author of Narratives Unsettled: Digression in Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert Stifter (Northwestern University Press, 2012). He is an assistant professor of German at the Pennsylvania State University.
Co-op available. We will work for features and excerpts in magazines and journals with poetry coverage like Jacket2, Rain Taxi, The Believer, BOMBlog, The Poetry Foundation, The Poetry Society of America, who have reviewed Graham Foust's work. We'll also push for coverage in translation specific venues and send copies to journals and magazines that have editors interested in translation, like Conjunctions, The Iowa Review, World Literature Today, Two Lines, Zoland Poetry, Center for the art of Translation, Words Without Borders, Molossus, and Circumference. In Time's Rift is highly teachable; we plan to promote and encourage course adoption to those particularly interested in philosophical inquiry, lyrical density, Objectivism, Celan, and international literature in general. Translator Graham Foust will utilize his high visibility as a poet who reads and lectures frequently to read from and otherwise promote this title. We will promote this title through social media like Facebook and Twitter and on the author's and translators' pages on our website.
About the Author
Ernst Meister (1911-1979) was born in Hagen, Germany, and studied first theology, then literature, art history, and philosophy (the latter under Karl Lowith and Hans-Georg Gadamer) at various German universities. After the publication of his first book in 1932, he published no poetry for two decades, a silent spell that ultimately gave way to the prolific last third of his life, over the course of which he produced more than sixteen volumes of verse as well as numerous other literary and visual works. Often compared to Paul Celan because of the brevity and difficulty of his poems, Meister tends toward a more abstract existentialism that renders his work both intensely emotional and inimitably strange. Having written outside the dominant literary circles of his time, he remains relatively unknown, though he was posthumously awarded the most prestigious award for German literature, the Georg Buchner Prize, having been informed of the honor just days before his death. Graham Foust is the author of several collections of poetry, including A Mouth in California (Flood Editions, 2009) and To Anacreon in Heaven and Other Poems (Flood Editions, April 2013). He teaches at the University of Denver. Samuel Frederick is the author of Narratives Unsettled: Digression in Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert Stifter (Northwestern University Press, 2012). He is an assistant professor of German at the Pennsylvania State University.
Book Information
ISBN 9781933517940
Author Ernst Meister
Format Paperback
Page Count 144
Imprint Wave Books
Publisher Wave Books
Weight(grams) 227g
Co-op available. We will work for features and excerpts in magazines and journals with poetry coverage like Jacket2, Rain Taxi, The Believer, BOMBlog, The Poetry Foundation, The Poetry Society of America, who have reviewed Graham Foust's work. We'll also push for coverage in translation specific venues and send copies to journals and magazines that have editors interested in translation, like Conjunctions, The Iowa Review, World Literature Today, Two Lines, Zoland Poetry, Center for the art of Translation, Words Without Borders, Molossus, and Circumference. In Time's Rift is highly teachable; we plan to promote and encourage course adoption to those particularly interested in philosophical inquiry, lyrical density, Objectivism, Celan, and international literature in general. Translator Graham Foust will utilize his high visibility as a poet who reads and lectures frequently to read from and otherwise promote this title. We will promote this title through social media like Facebook and Twitter and on the author's and translators' pages on our website.
About the Author
Ernst Meister (1911-1979) was born in Hagen, Germany, and studied first theology, then literature, art history, and philosophy (the latter under Karl Lowith and Hans-Georg Gadamer) at various German universities. After the publication of his first book in 1932, he published no poetry for two decades, a silent spell that ultimately gave way to the prolific last third of his life, over the course of which he produced more than sixteen volumes of verse as well as numerous other literary and visual works. Often compared to Paul Celan because of the brevity and difficulty of his poems, Meister tends toward a more abstract existentialism that renders his work both intensely emotional and inimitably strange. Having written outside the dominant literary circles of his time, he remains relatively unknown, though he was posthumously awarded the most prestigious award for German literature, the Georg Buchner Prize, having been informed of the honor just days before his death. Graham Foust is the author of several collections of poetry, including A Mouth in California (Flood Editions, 2009) and To Anacreon in Heaven and Other Poems (Flood Editions, April 2013). He teaches at the University of Denver. Samuel Frederick is the author of Narratives Unsettled: Digression in Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert Stifter (Northwestern University Press, 2012). He is an assistant professor of German at the Pennsylvania State University.
Book Information
ISBN 9781933517940
Author Ernst Meister
Format Paperback
Page Count 144
Imprint Wave Books
Publisher Wave Books
Weight(grams) 227g
