A Skeleton Plays Violin: Book Three of Our Trakl
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A Skeleton Plays Violin: Book Three of Our Trakl
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857424297 |
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| Publisher: | Seagull Books |
| Publication date: | 07/15/2017 |
| Series: | The German List |
| Edition description: | Translatio |
| Pages: | 256 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.30(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d) |
About the Author
James Reidel is a poet, translator, and biographer. In addition to collections of his own poems, he has published translations of works by Georg Trakl, Franz Werfel, Robert Walser, Thomas Bernhard, and others. A fellow of the James Merrill House, he wrote Manon’s World after nearly a decade of research.
Table of Contents
Translator's Note xiii
Sources and Organization xvii
Published Prose and Poetry, 1906-1909 1
Dreamland, an Episode 11
From A Golden Chalice: Barabbas 17
From A Golden Chalice: Mary Magdalene 21
Neglect 27
The Morning Song 32
Dreamwalker 34
The Three Ponds in Hellbrunn 35
St Peter's Cemetery 37
Collation of 1909 39
Three Dreams 46
Of Still Days 49
Twilight 50
The Horror 51
Devotion 52
Sabbath 53
Hymn to the Night 54
The Deep Song 60
Ballad 61
Ballad 62
Ballad 63
Melusine 64
Downfall 65
Poem 66
Night Song 67
At a Window 68
Upon the Death of an Old Woman 69
Gypsies 70
Outdoor Theatre 71
To Slacken 72
Coda 73
Unison 74
Crucifixus 75
Confiteor 76
Silence 77
Before Sunrise 78
Blood Guilt 79
Meeting 80
Accomplishment 81
Metamorphosis 82
Evening Walk 83
The Saint 84
To a Woman in Passing 85
The Dead Church 86
Poems, 1909-1912 87
Melusine 95
The Night of the Poor 96
Night Song 97
De Profundis I 98
At the Cemetery 99
Sunny Afternoon 100
Era 101
The Shadow 102
Wondrous Spring 103
The Dream of an Afternoon 104
Summer Sonata 105
Lucent Hour 106
Childhood Memory 107
An Evening 108
Season 109
In the Wine Country 110
Colourful Autumn 111
The Dark Valley 112
Summer Half-Light 113
In the Moonlight 114
Allegory 115
A Spring Evening 116
Lamentation 117
Spring of the Soul 118
Half-Light in the West 119
The Church 120
To Angela 121
Reverie in the Evening 124
Winter Path in A Minor 125
Ever Darker 126
Afoot 127
December Sonnet 129
Poems, 1912-1914 131
[Nearness of Death] 138
[A tapestry, in which the stricken landscape pales] 139
[Pink mirror: an ugly image] 140
[Darkness is the song of the spring rain during the night] 141
[A shape which long dwelt in the coolness of dark stone] 142
[Going Down] 143
Delirium 144
At the Rim of an Old Fountain 145
Along Walls 146
Quietly 147
In the Hospital 148
[Something pale, lying in the shadows of a falling staircase] 150
[The stillness of the departed loves the old garden] 151
[With pink steps the stone descends into the moor] 152
[The blue night has softly risen on our foreheads] 153
[O Living in the stillness of the darkening garden] 154
With Evening 155
Summer 156
December 157
Judgement 158
Evening Glass 159
A Sister's Garden 160
On the Hill 161
[Hohenburg] 162
[Wind, white voice, which whispers at the drunkard's temples] 163
[So quietly toll] 164
[The dew of spring which falls from dark branches] 165
[O the leaf-stripped beeches and the blackish snow] 166
Wanderer's Sleep 167
Along Walls 168
To Novalis 169
Hour of Grief 170
In the Winter 171
Nightly Lament 172
Passion 173
To Johanna 176
Evening Land 178
Melancholy 185
To Lucifer 186
[Take, blue evening, one's temple, of one who slumbers] 187
In the Evening 188
Over New Wine 189
[Gloom] 190
[The night swallowed red faces] 191
On 192
Homecoming 193
Autumn Homecoming 195
Reverie 196
Psalm 197
Sight 199
To the Night 200
Dwindlings 201
[Sleep] 202
Stages of Life 203
The Sunflowers 204
[So grave O summer twilight] 205
Published Prose and Poetry, 1913-1915 207
A Spring Evening 227
In an Old Garden 228
Evening Reel 229
Night Soul 231
In Hellbrunn 232
The Heart 233
Sleep 235
The Thunderstorm 236
The Evening 238
The Night 239
The Despair 241
The Homecoming 242
Lament 243
Night Surrender 244
In the East 245
Lament 246
Grodek 247
Revelation and Perdition 248
Notes 253