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Translated by Robert Firmage. Copper Canyon Press (paperback, 2012)
Publisher Marketing: “I do not understand them; but their tone pleases me. It is the tone of true genius.”–Ludwig Wittgenstein
Song of the Departed brings back into print poems written at the height of Georg Trakl’s career. Trakl boldly confronted the conflicts created by the pursuit of truth amidst the fallenness of the human condition, writing of the unspeakable that lies beyond language, creating poetry that is intensely personal and eerily beautiful. Included in this revised edition are several new translations and an introduction by the translator.
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