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Weldon Kees
3 Entertainments brings together three works for film and television by the American poet Weldon Kees, whose work was introduced to the United Kingdom by Michael Hofmann and Simon Armitage…
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Thomas Bernhard
Collection of four short stories. Underpinning all these variously comic, tragic, and bitingly satirical excursions is Bernhard’s abiding interest in, and deep knowledge of, the philosophy of doubt.
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James Reidel
Critic, novelist, filmmaker, jazz musician, painter, and, above all, poet, Weldon Kees performed, practiced, and published with the best of his generation of artists - the so-called middle generation, which…
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Manon Gropius (1916-1935) was the daughter of Alma Mahler, the widow of Gustav Mahler, and the architect Walter Gropius, the founder of the Bauhaus, and the stepdaughter of the writer…
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Poetry. ‘The lean, striped shadow waiting against the stairwell’ fetches up at ‘a bed and breakfast serving no breakfast.’ A cool breeze stirs in these restive, sometimes dark, sometimes funny…
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Georg Trakl
Georg Trakl is an Austrian-German expressionist. This translation marks the hundredth anniversary of Trakl’s death during the first months of World War I. It introduces readers to the powerful verses…
Originally published as … Goethe schtirbt –Title page verso.
The 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…
The work of poet Georg Trakl, a leading Austrian-German expressionist, has been praised by many, including his contemporaries Rainer Maria Rilke and Else Lasker-Schuler, as well as his patron Ludwig…
Nicolas Mahler
Thousands upon thousands of books have been written about Immanuel Kant since his death. None, let’s be clear, have been quite like what we have here. In Party Fun with…
Collected Poems gathers Trakl’s early, middle, and late work, ranging widely, from his haunting prose pieces to his darkly beautiful poems documenting the first bloody weeks of World War I…
Thomas Bernhard,James Reidel
The poems in this volume were originally published in Thomas Bernhard, Gesammelte Gedichte A Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt um main, 1991; and Gedichte A Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin, 2015. –Title page verso.
Bringing together Thomas Bernhard’s second and third books of poetry, this collection contains short, untitled lyrics presenting his early explorations of themes that would continue to preoccupy him in his…
Alvin Levin
Alvin Levin, himself from the Bronx, captured life in the turbulent era of the 1930s in New York City.
For over thirty years Reger, a music critic, has sat on the same bench in front of a Tintoretto painting in a Viennese museum, thinking and railing against contemporary society…
Bertolt Brecht
This publication was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut, India –page facing title page.
Robert Walser,Daniele Pantano,James Reidel
This book brings English-language readers works by Walser in a rare form: dramolette.
Few writers have ever experienced such a steady rise in their reputation and public profile as Swiss…
Robert Walser
Three mini-plays by the German wunderkind and asylum-dweller.
James Nilsson,Susan Reidel
NOTE: Before purchasing, check with your instructor to ensure you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of the MyLab™and Mastering™ platforms exist for each title, and registrations are not transferable…
James Nilsson,Susan Reidel,Susan Riedel
Electric Circuits builds an understanding of concepts based on information the student has previously learned; helps stress the relationship between conceptual understanding and problem-solving approaches; and provides examples and problems…
