Beloved Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard (1931–89) began his career in the early 1950s as a poet. Over the next decade, Bernhard wrote thousands of poems and published four volumes of intensely wrought
Poetry. Translated from the German by Daniele Pantano. "Pantano, a renowned poet and translator, has brought both of these talents to bear on his project. His process was to loosely translate all of t
The great German Expressionist poet and playwright August Stramm (1874?1915) wrote only two books of poetry before his death in World War I. These proto-Dadaist poems represent his finest works. "Nigh
"Essential for all poetry collections. . . . Translator Joseph Cadora renders a beautiful new edition complete with commentary on each poem, based on Rilke's letters, numerous biographies, and re
Although The Book of Hours is the work of Rilke's youth, it contains the germ of his mature convictions. Written as spontaneously as received prayers, these poems celebrate a God who is not the Creato
Throughout his literary work Goethe portrays characters who defy and reject Enlightenment ideals of the bourgeois family, notions of heritage, assumptions about biological connections, expectations ab
Poetry. Translated from the German by Marc Vincenz. Observing the smallest movements across the moor from her bedroom window, Erika Burkart gives us passage into the innermost recesses of her mind. In
Lutz Seiler grew up in the former East Germany and has lived most of his life outside Berlin. His poems, not surprisingly, are works of the border, the in-between, and the provincial, marked by whispe
Eva Braun was seventeen years old when she was first introduced to Adolf Hitler in 1929. Hitler took her on dates to the opera, to dinner and to the movies. He eventually purchased her a home where sh
The second book in Seagull’s ambitious series of Georg Trakl’s works, Sebastian Dreaming was the second, and final, collection prepared for publication by Trakl himself. Published after his death, it
This book introduces for the first time selected poetry, letters, and other writings by the German writer Thomas Kunst (Leipzig) to the English-speaking world. Given the many prestigious awards the wr
The first English translation of the earliest poetry of brilliant and disruptive Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard, widely considered one of the most innovative and original authors of the twentieth cen
Bertolt Brecht is widely considered the greatest German playwright of the twentieth century, and to this day remains best known as a dramatist, the author of Mother Courage, The Threepenny Opera, and
This volume offers the first critical edition of the newly discovered Aulularia (1629), which exists in a sole copy, and the fragments of Mater-Virgo (1621), which adapts Plautus' Amphitryo to show th
"Like his subject matter Meister's writing is ominous, intangible and inescapable."Publishers Weekly"The translators of Wallless Space were brave to take on Meister's dense
"Like his subject matter Meister's writing is ominous, intangible and inescapable."Publishers Weekly"The translators of Wallless Space were brave to take on Meister's dense
Expanded bilingual edition of Germany's most important poet, adding work from later collections including Kiosk and Lighter Than Air to his earlier Bloodaxe Selected Poems.
