{"product_id":"of-entirety-say-the-sentence-ernst-meister-9781940696164","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\u003ewere 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\u003eis 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\u003eover 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\u003eis 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\u003eis 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ernst Meister\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 194069616X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781940696164\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wave Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.70w x 0.90d","brand":"Ernst Meister","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48442686537983,"sku":"9781940696164","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0f7e925d-75e8-48b1-bf61-cbd3e6e0bbc0.jpg?v=1777199078","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/of-entirety-say-the-sentence-ernst-meister-9781940696164","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}