Selected Later Poems of Marie Luise Kaschnitz (The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation)

Chosen later poems of Marie Luise Kaschnitz. (The Lockert library of poetry in translation) I. Mueller, Lisel. II. name. PT2621. A73A26 831'. 912 80-7537 ISBN 0-691-06442-3 ISBN 0-691-01374-8 (pbk. ) POETRY, P U P ■ *« . U. S. basically / chosen Later Poems of MARIE LUISE KASCHNITZ Translated by way of LISEL MUELLER Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation PRINCETO N PAPERBACKS despite her renown in Germany as a exceptional poet in addition to a author of fiction and essays, Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901-1974) is scarcely famous within the usa. this primary book-length translation into Eng­ lish of her paintings makes on hand a variety of poems that date from the final twenty years of her lifestyles and that articulate, within the translator’s phrases, “ the sluggish, painful self-discoveries that include time and soreness. ” In her creation Lisel Mueller discusses the poet’s lifestyles because it affected her poetry. Having remained in Ger­ many throughout the Nazi regime and global struggle II, Kaschnitz and different surviving writers turned vital voices in a literature of dedication desirous about confronting the imme­ diate earlier. From an prior voice that was once ex­ hortative and public, Kaschnitz grad­ ually followed a extra own and personal mode. After her husband’s dying, which left her devastated, she endeavored to grapple together with her divided self— her eager for demise and tran­ scendence and her usual energy and attachment to existence. As Ms. Mueller issues out, this shift from public to non-public allowed the poet and her in line with­ sona to come back jointly, as that they had no longer performed prior to, and to loose a lyrical voice that used to be uniquely hers. Lisel Mueller, a local of Germany and the writer of a number of volumes of poetry, is a school member— present­ ly on go away— of the MFA Writing seasoned­ gram at Goddard university.