Wallless Space by Ernst Meister and translated by Graham Foust, Samuel Frederick

This is poetry from Germany.

Wallless Space by Ernst Meister translated by Graham Foust, Samuel Frederick is published by Wave Books. This is a Book originally written in German. This was published in 2014.0 and has the ISBN of 9.78193351794E12.

In Wallless Space, Ernst Meister arrives in English through Graham Foust, Samuel Frederick’s translation from German, with a lyric field shaped by space, mortality, abstraction, and minimal thought. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the book should not be reduced to a country-language-press summary. I would read it for atmosphere and attention first: what kind of silence it makes, what kind of body it imagines, what kind of world becomes visible when the poem turns its head. The strongest value of this entry is that it gives readers permission to approach difficulty as texture rather than a locked door. Wallless Space belongs in the library as a book of encounter, not simply information.

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