{"product_id":"9781933517940","title":"Wallless Space","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Meister's work is mesmerizingly succinct and elusive, but also ambitious to a degree almost unheard-of among presently-observed aesthetic moments. Highly recommended.\"— \u003ci\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Foust and Frederick have done us all a great favor. Meister's poetry could have been lost in the rift of time that he wrote so elegantly about.\"— \u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A good, interesting collection, in a solid translation. . . . \u003ci\u003eIn Time's Rift\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome volume and certainly suggests that Meister is a significant poet deserving greater attention.\"— \u003ci\u003eComplete Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eWallless Space\u003c\/i\u003e is a translation of German poet Ernst Meister's final collection and the last of the informal trilogy which also includes \u003ci\u003eIn Time's Rift\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2012) and \u003ci\u003eOf Entirety Say the Sentence\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave, forthcoming 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\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThere's nary a Maker,\u003cbr\u003ethere's nary a witness,\u003cbr\u003ethere's only Nature,\u003cbr\u003ewho brings herself\u003cbr\u003eabout herself, she alone—\u003cbr\u003eand I'm supposedly lonely\u003cbr\u003ein her?\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eErnst Meister\u003c\/b\u003e (1911–79) was born in Hagen, Germany. He was posthumously awarded the most prestigious award for German literature, the Georg Büchner Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eGraham Foust\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several collections of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eTo Anacreon in Heaven and Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (Flood Editions, April 2013). He teaches at the University of Denver.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061439021296,"sku":"9781933517940","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781933517940_p0.jpg?v=1763640949","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781933517940","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}