Thirty Poems

Name: Thirty Poems
Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Price: 16.99 EUR
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English

By (author): Robert Walser

Translated by: Christopher Middleton

In a small, exquisite clothbound format resembling the early Swiss and German editions of Walsers work, Thirty Poems collects famed translator Christopher Middletons favorite poems from the more than five hundred Walser wrote. The illustrations range from an early poem in perfect copperplate handwriting, to one from a 1927 Czech-German newspaper, to a microscript. See more

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Weight: 173g
Dimensions: 135 x 185mm
Publication Date: 19 Jun 2012
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780811220019

About Robert Walser

Robert Walser (18781956) was born in Switzerland. He left school at fourteen and led a wandering and precarious existence working as a bank clerk a butler in a castle and an inventor's assistant while producing essays stories and novels. In 1933 he abandoned writing and entered a sanatoriumwhere he remained for the rest of his life. I am not here to write Walser said but to be mad. Distinguished poet and translator Christopher Middleton lives in Austin Texas. His awards include the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Schegel-Tieck Translation Prize.