Georg Trakl

By Georg TraklTranslated by James ReidelBook two of Our Trakl “Sebastian Dreaming is a dark and enveloping book filled with familiar expressionist energies and barraging pastoral haunts. The text is a mere ninety-two pages long, entirely English, entirely exquisite and damning, both still and swirling: a presence of right and wrong, good and evil, complacent and anxious from start to finish. . . . Slowly ascending and descending through the book ultimately results in a challenge worth taking for the breathtaking moments of beauty and collapse that fill a world of dreams and nightmares to be valued equally.”—Queen Mobs Tea House"Sebastian Dreaming is a book of longing and nostalgia. Here we are today, nostalgic as a society for conflict, because we have forgotten the despair it works over those who bear witness. Young Georg Trakl and his poem-dreams are necessary reminders that this nostalgia—maybe all nostalgia—is misplaced, sometimes tragically so."—AsymptoteThe second book in Seagull’s ambitious series of Georg Trakl’s works, Sebastian Dreaming was the second, and final, collection prepared for publication by Trakl himself. Published after his death, it was perhaps even tied to it: forced into a military hospital by the psychological trauma of his World War I experiences, the Austrian poet requested that his publisher send him proofs of the book. He waited a week, and then overdosed on cocaine.A century later, the book appears for the first time in English. While a number of its poems have been included in other collections, translator James Reidel argues that this particular book deserves to stand on its own and be read as one piece, as Trakl intended. Only by doing this can we begin to see Trakl in his proper time and place, as an early modern poet whose words nonetheless continue to exert a powerful hold on us while we make our way through a new, uncharted century. Hardcover72 pagesSeagull Books, 2016Originally published in 19155 x 0.6 x 8.5 inchesISBN 9780857423313Poetry

Sebastian Dreaming

By Georg TraklTranslated by Robert Firmage “Trakl’s work is disturbing and visionary, melancholy and surreal… Delving deeply into the unconscious, Trakl’s poems are voyages of poetic discovery.”—Chris Faatz, Powell’s Books In Song of the Departed, George Trakl confronts the conflicts of pursuing truth in a difficult and declining world at the edge of war. Robert Firmage brilliantly translates Trakl’s work in this bilingual collection of writings about the unspeakable that lies beyond language, creating poetry that is intensely personal, haunting, dark, and eerily beautiful. Although Trakl is best known for his drug use, madness, and self-inflicted death, as Firmage’s commentary and translations illustrate, Trakl was more than a poete maudit: he was instead one of the most significant poets of the German language, supported during his lifetime by Ludvig Wittgenstein and later an influence on Ranier Maria Rilke, Paul Celan, James Wright, and poets across generations and languages. And yet, translations of is work remain underrepresented in English. Out of print for two decades, this revised edition includes over a dozen newly translated poems along with fresh commentary from their translator. Paperback184 pagesCopper Canyon Classics, 20125.4 x 0.8 x 7.4 inchesISBN 9781556593734 Poetry

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Georg Trakl

Sebastian Dreaming

Song of the Departed: Selected Poems of Georg Trakl

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Sebastian Dreaming

Song of the Departed: Selected Poems of Georg Trakl

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Georg Trakl