You Dying Nations
Jeremy Adler: Georg Trakl, 17 April 2003
Poems and Prose
by Georg Trakl, translated by Alexander Stillmark.
Libris, 192 pp., £40, March 2001,1 870352 51 3 Show More
by Georg Trakl, translated by Alexander Stillmark.
Libris, 192 pp., £40, March 2001,
“... the editor of the journal Der Brenner, to be shared out between worthy poets. When Ficker chose Georg Trakl as one beneficiary, Wittgenstein said that he didn’t understand Trakl’s poems, but felt they bore the stamp of ‘genius’. In the autumn Wittgenstein was serving on the Eastern Front and tried to meet his ... ”