{"product_id":"9780692479681","title":"Selected Poems of Maria Luise Weissmann","description":"When Munich-based poet Maria Luise Weissmann (1899-1929) died unexpectedly at the age of thirty, her peers on the German literary scene knew that the world had lost a poet of great promise-and one whose passing gave as much cause for grief, Otto Heuschele noted, as the recent death of Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Influenced by Hofmannsthal and Rilke both, Weissmann spoke with a voice that also recalled-in its formal restraint yet vulnerable candor-that of her American contemporary Edna St. Vincent Millay, though one distinctively her own. Her subjects were wide-ranging-saints, prophets, animals wild and domestic, characters from classic literature such as Don Quixote and Robinson Crusoe, the modern city, nature, and love-and her treatment of them was, by turns, solemn, witty, and profound. This volume provides, for the very first time, a substantial offering of her poems in an English version.","brand":"Cedar Springs Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49950217306352,"sku":"9780692479681","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780692479681","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}