Meister Ernst on the Concept of Wholeness in Language

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Translated by Graham Foust & Samuel Frederick. Wave Books (paperback, 2015)

Publisher Marketing: One of the last books by post-war German poet and Georg Büchner Prize winner Ernst Meister–and the third to be translated into English by poet Graham Foust and scholar Samuel Frederick–Of Entirety Say the Sentence is his most expansive book. With rich allusions to Hölderlin and Celan, these poems are staggering in their scope of mortality, time, and infinity.

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