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Collected Poems (Hardcover)
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Collected Poems (Hardcover)
Series: The German List
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Beloved Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard (1931 89) began his career
in the early 1950s as a poet. Over the next decade, Bernhard wrote
thousands of poems and published four volumes of intensely wrought
and increasingly personal verse, with such titles as On Earth and
in Hell, In Hora Mortis, and Under the Iron of the Moon. Bernhard's
early poetry, bearing the influence of Georg Trakl, begins with a
deep connection to his Austrian homeland. As his poems saw
publication and recognition, Bernhard seemed always on the verge of
joining the ranks of Ingeborg Bachmann, Paul Celan, and other young
post-war poets writing in German. During this time, however, his
poems became increasingly more obsessive, filled with an undulant
self-pity, counterpointed by a defamatory, bardic voice utterly
estranged from his country, all of which resulted in a magisterial
work of anti-poetry one that represents Bernhard's own harrowing
experience with his leitmotif of success and failure, which makes
his fiction such a pleasure. For all of these reasons, Bernhard's
Collected Poems, translated into English for the first time by
James Reidel, is a key to understanding Bernhard's irascible black
comedy found in virtually all of his writings even down to his last
will and testament. There is much to be found in these pages for
Bernhard fans of every stripe.
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