{"product_id":"9781556593734","title":"Song of the Departed: Selected Poems of Georg Trakl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Trakl's poetry is amazing. His reader is gifted with visions of a darker world, an autumnal place of surreal beauty and a dying splendor. It is not a world friendly to people—it is full of death, desolation, and decay, strange creatures and arcane gods. But it is beautiful nonetheless. Hauntingly beautiful.\"—Chris Faatz, Powells.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I do not understand them; but their tone pleases me. It is the tone of true genius.\"—Ludwig Wittgenstein\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eSong of the Departed\u003c\/i\u003e brings back into print poems written at the height of Georg Trakl's career. Trakl boldly confronted the conflicts created by the pursuit of truth amidst the fallenness of the human condition, writing of the unspeakable that lies beyond language, creating poetry that is intensely personal and eerily beautiful. Included in this revised edition are several new translations and an introduction by the translator.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eAll roads disgorge to black decay.\u003cbr\u003eBeneath the golden boughs of night and stars\u003cbr\u003eThe sister's shadow flutters through the silent grove\u003cbr\u003eTo greet the spirits of the heroes, bleeding heads.\u003cbr\u003eAnd softly in the reeds drone the dark flutes of autumn.\u003cbr\u003eO prouder grief! you brazen altars;\u003cbr\u003eTonight a mighty anguish feeds the hot flame of spirit:\u003cbr\u003eUnborn grandchildren.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eGeorg Trakl\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Austria in 1887. He served as a medical officer during World War I. As a lyric poet, he set a dark, introspective tone that deeply influenced the course of German expressionism. He died in 1914 after an overdose of cocaine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060145111280,"sku":"9781556593734","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781556593734_p0.jpg?v=1763754288","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781556593734","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}