Of Entirety Say the Sentence by Ernst Meister and translated by Graham Foust

This is poetry from Germany.

Of Entirety Say the Sentence by Ernst Meister translated by Graham Foust is published by Wave Books. This is a Book originally written in German. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781940696171E12.

Of Entirety Say the Sentence, by Ernst Meister and translated by Graham Foust from German, brings German poetry into English through Meister’s entirety, sentence, and the metaphysical hunger to say totality without pretending it can be owned. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem begins making its own weather. I would read it for sentence, whole, void, and the severe music of thinking at the edge of abstraction, not as a fixed lesson about a nation, period, or school. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Of Entirety Say the Sentence belongs in the translated poetry library because it deepens the library’s German philosophical lyric with concentrated force.

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