{"product_id":"wallless-space-ernst-meister-9781933517940","title":"Wallless Space","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Meister's work is mesmerizingly succinct and elusive, but also ambitious to a degree almost unheard-of among presently-observed aesthetic moments. Highly recommended.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Foust and Frederick have done us all a great favor. Meister's poetry could have been lost in the rift of time that he wrote so elegantly about.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A good, interesting collection, in a solid translation. . . . \u003ci\u003eIn Time's Rift\u003c\/i\u003e is a welcome volume and certainly suggests that Meister is a significant poet deserving greater attention.\"--\u003ci\u003eComplete Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWallless Space\u003c\/i\u003e is a translation of German poet Ernst Meister's final collection and the last of the informal trilogy which also includes \u003ci\u003eIn Time's Rift\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave Books, 2012) and \u003ci\u003eOf Entirety Say the Sentence\u003c\/i\u003e (Wave, forthcoming 2015). Meister's poems are brief but dense, intense but playful; obsessed with mortality and the intersections of the everyday and the infinite.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere's nary a Maker, \u003cbr\u003ethere's nary a witness, \u003cbr\u003ethere's only Nature, \u003cbr\u003ewho brings herself\u003cbr\u003eabout herself, she alone--\u003cbr\u003eand I'm\u003cbr\u003esupposedly lonely\u003cbr\u003ein her?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eErnst Meister\u003c\/b\u003e (1911-79) was born in Hagen, Germany. He was posthumously awarded the most prestigious award for German literature, the Georg B?hner 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, Thomas Bernhard, and Adalbert 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ernst Meister\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1933517948\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781933517940\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wave Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/02\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.40w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/18\/2014","brand":"Ernst Meister","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44078257012991,"sku":"9781933517940","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2fbe3d52-c6af-439b-99aa-a180f25ba411.jpg?v=1685474451","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/wallless-space-ernst-meister-9781933517940","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}