{"product_id":"wallless-space-paperback","title":"Wallless Space - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eErnst Meister\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGraham Foust\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eSamuel Frederick\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoetry. Translated from the German by Graham Foust and Samuel Frederick. WALLLESS SPACE is a translation of German poet Ernst Meister's final collection and the last of the informal trilogy which also includes IN TIME'S RIFT (Wave Books, 2012) and OF ENTIRETY SAY THE SENTENCE (Wave, 2015). Meister's poems are brief but dense, intense but playful; obsessed with mortality and the intersections of the everyday and the infinite.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eErnst Meister\u003c\/b\u003e (1911-1979) was born in Hagen, Germany, and studied first theology, then literature, art history, and philosophy (the latter under Karl Löwith and Hans-Georg Gadamer) at various German universities. After the publication of his first book in 1932, he published no poetry for two decades, a silent spell that ultimately gave way to the prolific last third of his life, over the course of which he produced more than sixteen volumes of verse as well as numerous other literary and visual works. Often compared to Paul Celan because of the brevity and difficulty of his poems, Meister tends toward a more abstract existentialism that renders his work both intensely emotional and inimitably strange. Having written outside the dominant literary circles of his time, he remains relatively unknown, though he was posthumously awarded the most prestigious award for German literature, the Georg Büchner Prize, having been informed of the honor just days before his death. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGraham Foust\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several collections of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eA Mouth in California\u003c\/i\u003e (Flood Editions, 2009) and \u003ci\u003eTo Anacreon in Heaven and Other Poems \u003c\/i\u003e(Flood Editions, April 2013). He teaches at the University of Denver. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSamuel Frederick\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eNarratives Unsettled: Digression in Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert Stifter\u003c\/i\u003e (Northwestern University Press, 2012). He is an assistant professor of German at the Pennsylvania State University.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 121\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.9 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 02, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700516982847,"sku":"9781933517940","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/a581416755e55c8ee75ded909846cac6.webp?v=1765017054","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/wallless-space-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}