{"product_id":"of-entirety-say-the-sentence-9781940696171","title":"Of Entirety Say the Sentence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Like his subject matter Meister's writing is ominous, intangible and inescapable.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The translators of \u003ci\u003eWallless Space \u003c\/i\u003ewere brave to take on Meister's dense and unusual poetry, and so far their work has been excellent. . . . Foust and Frederick have preserved the phonetic elements of Meister's verse--assonance, alliteration, rhyme, anaphora--without sacrificing the poet's distilled diction and powerfully short dimeter and trimeter lines.\"--Christopher Shannon, \u003ci\u003eWords Without Borders\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne 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--\u003ci\u003eOf Entirety Say the Sentence \u003c\/i\u003eis his most expansive book. With rich allusions to Hölderlin and Celan, these poems are staggering in their scope of mortality, time, and infinity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMankind\u003cbr\u003ehas his song to sing, \u003cbr\u003eand even though I am\u003cbr\u003eshaken by the world's silence, \u003cbr\u003eI don't want to fling anything\u003cbr\u003eover the crown of his head.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eErnst Meister \u003c\/b\u003e(1911-1979) was born in Hagen, Germany. He was posthumously awarded the most prestigious award for German literature, the Georg Büchner Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGraham Foust \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of several collections of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eTo Anacreon in Heaven and Other Poems \u003c\/i\u003e(Flood Editions, April 2013). He teaches at the University of Denver.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamuel Frederick \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eNarratives Unsettled: Digression in Robert Walser\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Thomas Bernhard\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAdalbert Stifter \u003c\/i\u003e(Northwestern University Press, 2012). He is an assistant professor of German at the Pennsylvania State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eErnst Meister\u003c\/b\u003e (1911-1979) was born in Hagen, Germany, and studied first theology, then literature, art history, and philosophy (the latter under Karl Löwith 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 Büchner Prize, having been informed of the honor just days before his death. Graham Foust and Samuel Frederick have translated Meister's informal trilogy which includes \u003ci\u003eIn Time's Rift\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2012), \u003ci\u003eWallless Space\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2014) and \u003ci\u003eOf Entirety Say the Sentence\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2015). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGraham Foust\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several collections of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eA Mouth in California\u003c\/i\u003e (Flood Editions, 2009) and \u003ci\u003eTo Anacreon in Heaven and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (Flood Editions, April 2013). He teaches at the University of Denver. With Samuel Frederick, he has translated three volumes of poetry by Ernst Meister, including \u003ci\u003eIn Time's Rift\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2012), \u003ci\u003eWallless Space\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2014), and \u003ci\u003eOf Entirety Say the Sentence\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2015). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamuel Frederick\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eNarratives Unsettled: Digression in Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert Stifter\u003c\/i\u003e (Northwestern University Press, 2012). He is an assistant professor of German at the Pennsylvania State University. With Graham Foust he has translated three volumes of poetry by Ernst Meister, including \u003ci\u003eIn Time's Rift\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2012), \u003ci\u003eWallless Space\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2014), and \u003ci\u003eOf Entirety Say the Sentence\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2015).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50365845766418,"sku":"9781940696171","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5a51cedb-7aad-478b-9d71-dbd43ea4f16c.jpg?v=1728464864","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/of-entirety-say-the-sentence-9781940696171","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}