{"product_id":"9781940696171","title":"Of Entirety Say the Sentence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Like his subject matter Meister's writing is ominous, intangible and inescapable.\"— \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The translators of \u003ci\u003eWallless Space \u003c\/i\u003e were brave to take on Meister's dense and unusual poetry, and so far their work has been excellent. . . . Foust and Frederick have preserved the phonetic elements of Meister's verse—assonance, alliteration, rhyme, anaphora—without sacrificing the poet's distilled diction and powerfully short dimeter and trimeter lines.\"—Christopher Shannon, \u003ci\u003eWords Without Borders\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the last books by post-war German poet and Georg Büchner Prize winner Ernst Meister—and the third to be translated into English by poet Graham Foust and scholar Samuel Frederick— \u003ci\u003eOf Entirety Say the Sentence \u003c\/i\u003e is his most expansive book. With rich allusions to Hölderlin and Celan, these poems are staggering in their scope of mortality, time, and infinity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eMankind\u003cbr\u003ehas his song to sing,\u003cbr\u003eand even though I am\u003cbr\u003eshaken by the world's silence,\u003cbr\u003eI don't want to fling anything\u003cbr\u003e• ver the crown of his head.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eErnst Meister \u003c\/b\u003e (1911-1979) 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\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003e Thomas Bernhard\u003c\/i\u003e , and \u003ci\u003eAdalbert 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":47061410021616,"sku":"9781940696171","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781940696171_p0.jpg?v=1763667900","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781940696171","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}