Songs in Flight: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann - Softcover

Songs in Flight: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Bilingual edition. Translated & introduced by Peter Filkins. Foreword by Charles Simic. 337pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, gently read & unmarked, in Near Fine condition (slight nigh-invisible crease on front cover). "SONGS IN FLIGHT gathers together Bachmann's two celebrated books of poetry, as well as the early and late poems not collected in book form. Given that Bachmann and Paul Celan are considered to be the two most important poets to emerge in post-war German letters, this volume represents an introduction to a major voice in 20th-century poetry that is long overdue. [] Influencing numerous writers from Thomas Bernhard to Christa Wolf, Bachmann's poetic investigation into the nature and limits of language in the face of history remains unmatched in its ability to combine philosophical insight with haunting lyricism. Just as Bachmann's Malina sought to expand the possibilities of the novel, SONGS IN FLIGHT contains the bedrock of a vision as far reaching as it is indelible, and as uncompromising as it is bound to hope." [publisher copy] "Poet, short story writer, novelist, essayist, Ingeborg Bachmann is regarded as one of the half-dozen most important German-language writers of the second half of the twentieth century. And in the acclaim for her passionate and varied body of work, a supreme place is usually granted to her poetry. English-language readers still don't have enough Bachmann to read, but this volume of eloquent translations (and an excellent essay and notes by the translator) is the best of all possible beginnings."--Susan Sontag. Near-pristine NF paperback (slight aging/shelfwear) w/brilliant corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine, quite presentable. Artikel-Nr. JBR06

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