Book record
Requiem for Ernst Jandl
Friederike Mayröcker
Translated from German by Roslyn Theobald
Requiem for Ernst Jandl, by Friederike Mayröcker and translated by Roslyn Theobald from German, brings Austrian German-language poetry into English through grief for Ernst Jandl, artistic companionship, and Mayröcker writing where love, loss, and language cannot be separated. 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 requiem, partnership, mourning, and the damaged music left after another writer disappears, 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. Requiem for Ernst Jandl belongs in the translated poetry library because it belongs as a major document of poetic grief and literary intimacy.
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Language
- German
- Country
- Austria
- ISBN
- 9780857424754