{"product_id":"wallless-space-9781933517940","title":"Wallless Space","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Meister's work is mesmerizingly succinct and elusive, but also ambitious to a degree almost unheard-of among presently-observed aesthetic moments. Highly recommended.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Foust and Frederick have done us all a great favor. Meister's poetry could have been lost in the rift of time that he wrote so elegantly about.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A good, interesting collection, in a solid translation. . . . \u003ci\u003eIn Time's Rift\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome volume and certainly suggests that Meister is a significant poet deserving greater attention.\"--\u003ci\u003eComplete Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWallless Space\u003c\/i\u003e is a translation of German poet Ernst Meister's final collection and the last of the informal trilogy which also includes \u003ci\u003eIn Time's Rift\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2012) and \u003ci\u003eOf Entirety Say the Sentence\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave, forthcoming 2015). Meister's poems are brief but dense, intense but playful; obsessed with mortality and the intersections of the everyday and the infinite.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere's nary a Maker, \u003cbr\u003ethere's nary a witness, \u003cbr\u003ethere's only Nature, \u003cbr\u003ewho brings herself\u003cbr\u003eabout herself, she alone--\u003cbr\u003eand I'm\u003cbr\u003esupposedly lonely\u003cbr\u003ein her?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eErnst Meister\u003c\/b\u003e (1911-79) 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\u003e is 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\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\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. \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. \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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50364175974674,"sku":"9781933517940","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_58c92484-1e30-4413-b546-dd65c20f49e9.jpg?v=1728428045","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wallless-space-9781933517940","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}