{"product_id":"9780907562771","title":"Farewell to Everything: Ninety Nine-Liners","description":"Ilma Rakusa was born in 1946 in Slovakia, to a Hungarian and Slovenian parents, and spent her childhood in Budapest, Ljubljana and Trieste. From 1965-1971 she studied Slav Languages \u0026amp; Literature, and Romance Languages \u0026amp; Literature in Zürich, Paris and St Petersburg and in 1971 was awarded a doctorate for her dissertation on the 'Theme of Loneliness in Russian Literature', later published in Berne.\u003cp\u003eIlma Rakusa writes poetry prose and essays in German, and translates from French, Russian, Serbo-Croat and Hungarian into German. This volume is a translation of her 1997 German collection \"Ein Strich durch alles\", a collection of 90 \"nine-liners\", composed over a 21-month period in various locations. These elliptical poems mark a new departure in her work. This English-only volume is the first full-length English translation of her poetry to appear, and is her first UK publication.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shearsman Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50008305238256,"sku":"9780907562771","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780907562771_p0.jpg?v=1784250361","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780907562771","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}