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Enigma - Selected Poems (Paperback)
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Enigma - Selected Poems (Paperback)
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Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973), an Austrian, is considered to be one
of the most distinguished German-speaking poets of the years
following World War II. As a female poet of the twentieth century,
she can have had few rivals for the sweep and force of her
imagi-nation. She was born in Carinthia, a part of southern Austria
close to the borders of Slovenia and Italy. She was from the first
aware of frontiers, and much of her poetry is about place,
belonging and not belonging, and about her yearning for a world
without borders and above all for a world at peace. Other themes
were her fear of a return to the conditions and attitudes of
pre-war life and, again and again, the complexity of love -- its
emotional highs and the bitter pain when it goes wrong. This
collection is called Enigma, the title of one of the poems.
Bachmann herself was enigmatic, both as a person and as a poet.
Much of her poetry expresses her feelings in a figurative way, the
ideas appearing at a tangent to their underlying meaning, and she
loved to play with the intermingling of dream and reality. However
her work is not difficult if one simply listens to the music of the
lines and enjoys their wealth of imagery and the energy of their
emotional involvement. This translation has been prepared for the
general reader rather than the academic and for students of
literature who are not fluent in German. The translators have
stayed as close as possible to the meaning of the original and to
the forms, rhythms, and general feel of the German verse, and they
have used rhyme when there is rhyme in the original. They have also
followed Bachmann in using a simple, everyday choice of words,
avoiding any artificial poetic language. Bachmann ceased to write
poetry in the 1960s, over forty years ago. Yet her poetry remains
as timely and appropriate today as when it was written. She should
be viewed as a world poet rather than an Austrian one, and it is
hoped that this collection will make her work better known and
admired in the English-speaking world.
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