- 192 + xxiipp
‘Gravely the waters murmur. O the moist shades of the meadow’
This is the most comprehensive selection yet available of Trakl’s darkly but consistently beautiful poetry, which unfailingly castes a spell on everyone who reads it, from Rilke and Wittgenstein to us today.
‘The book is like a forest, green and dark, a wood of words where it is almost autumn. Stillmark’s translations catch much of the hypnotic power of the originals. They provide a way into a vision which is quite unique’ – The Tablet
‘Stillmark’s versions are a distinguished achievement which will give lasting pleasure to lovers of poetry’ – Translation and Literature
Georg Trakl (1887–1914) was an Austrian poet whose intense, sometimes paradisal poetry was born of great pain and anguish. He served as a medical orderly in the First World War and died in desperate circumstances on the Eastern Front.