On Earth and in Hell: Early Poems

About Thomas Bernhard

Thomas Bernhard (1931--1989) was an Austrian playwright novelist and poet. His body of work was cited in a New York Times book review as the most significant literary achievement since World War II. He is widely considered one of the most innovative and original authors of the twentieth century and often associated with fellow mavericks Beckett Kafka and Dostoevsky. Peter Waugh is a poet editor and translator born in Barnet London in 1956. He is co-editor of subdream the Vienna Journal of English Language Poetry and publisher of Labyrinth poetry books. He studied with Allen Ginsberg Ann Waldman Jackson Mac Low Ed Sanders Andrew Schelling Blixa Bargeld Andrei Bitov Henri Chopin and others. His poetry has appeared in anthologies and magazines in England the United States Austria Slovakia Macedonia and Croatia as well as in the chapbooks Horizon Firelight (2000) and Haiku Butterfly Death Dream (2002). He is a member of Ubersetzergemeinschaft literarischer und wissenschaftlicher Werke (Austrian Society of Literary and Academic Translators) and his highly-respected translations include the bilingual German-English volumes Terminal by Klara Kottner-Benigni and Standpoints by Edith Sommer. He lives in Vienna.