Poems: A Bilingual Edition (Avant-Garde & Modernism Collection) [Paperback]

Georg Heym (Author), Antony Hasler (Translator)

Book Description

Series: Avant-Garde & Modernism Collection | Publication Date: February 10, 2006

In cities strange and yet weirdly familiar, women watched by monstrous demons give birth to headless infants, vast gods straddle apartment blocks and gaze balefully out on an urban hell, and the savage giant War dances wildly on the mountains while a mighty city sinks into an abyss. The poet Georg Heym saw what we have all come to see, and it was not long after his death in 1912 that readers heard in him a prophet. These poems rich in images of the city and war, of death and decay, for which Heym is best known, have their place in this book, the first volume of Heym's work to appear in English. But here too are poems haunted by other spirits: sonnets of a chill formal perfection offer vignettes of the French Revolution and its Napoleonic aftermath; others are shaped by a rich and strange mixture of classical antiquity and the Gothic macabre; others still, among Heym's later works, are some of the finest love poems and elegies ever to be written in the German language.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"Almost a hundred years since his early death, we now have at last available in English the lyric work of one of the greatest poets of Expressionism, Georg Heym, precursor of Surrealism and powerful prophetic visionary of the catastrophic aspects of the twentieth century. His remarkable poetry comes to us in a superb translation. Antony Hasler transmits the original with astonishing faithfulness and a poetic skill that makes the German poems as effective in English as they are in their original language. Hasler does full justice to Heym's masterful rhythm and startling imagery."--Walter H. Sokel, Commonwealth Professor Emeritus of German and English Literature, University of Virginia

About the Author

Georg Heym (1887-1912) was a German Expressionist poet and fiction writer. Influenced by Rimbaud and Baudelaire, Heym in turn had an influence on many major twentieth-century German writers.

Antony Hasler is an editor for the online journal Literature Compass (published by Blackwell) and a member of the committee for the MLA Discussion Group for Scottish Language and Literature.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press; Bilingual edition (February 10, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0810123223
• ISBN-13: 978-0810123229
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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