{"product_id":"uncollected-later-poems-1968-1979-9781950268894","title":"Uncollected Later Poems (1968-1979)","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn these skillful new translations by poet Graham Foust and scholar Samuel Frederick, whose work has previously been shortlisted for the National Translation Award in Poetry, each line is gnomic yet ample, opening spaces of reflection on mortality and infinity. \u003c\/b\u003eNow preserved in this portable, English-language volume, these poems from Georg Büchner Prize winner Ernst Meister's last decade are oracular and entrancing. While the collections previously published by Wave--\u003ci\u003eOf Entirety Say the Sentence, In Time's Rift\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWallless Space\u003c\/i\u003e--provide expansive access to Meister's late work, \u003ci\u003eUncollected Later Poems\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(1968-1979)\u003c\/i\u003e delivers granular, endlessly rewarding profundities. \u003cbr\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 In \u003ci\u003eTime'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).\u003cb\u003eGraham Foust \u003c\/b\u003eis 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), which was shortlisted for ALTA's National Poetry in Translation Award, and \u003ci\u003eOf Entirety Say the Sentence\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2015).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamuel Frederick \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eNarratives Unsettled: Digression in Robert Walser\u003c\/i\u003e, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert Stifter (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), which was shortlisted for ALTA's National Poetry in Translation Award, and \u003ci\u003eOf Entirety Say the Sentence\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2015).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50498057961746,"sku":"9781950268894","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e941e42e-886f-4f28-aa50-e0b5d6128873.jpg?v=1730726590","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/uncollected-later-poems-1968-1979-9781950268894","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}