Book record
Oppressive Light Selected Poems
Robert Walser
Translated from German by Daniele Pantano
Robert Walser's Oppressive Light Selected Poems, translated by Daniele Pantano from German, should be introduced as more than a piece of metadata. The book's charge gathers around light, miniature attention, unease, and marginal perception, and that makes it valuable for readers who want poems to think through sensation rather than explanation. I like descriptions that admit when a book may ask for patience, because patience is not a flaw in poetry. It is one of the pleasures. Read this one for the line that lingers, the image that feels half familiar and half impossible, the pressure of a voice shaped by poetry connected to Switzerland without being flattened into a lesson. Oppressive Light Selected Poems earns its place as a work of attention.
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Black Lawrence Press
- Language
- German
- Country
- Switzerland
- ISBN
- 9781936873180