Susan Bernofsky

Robert Walser

Christopher Middleton

A pseudo-biographical “stroll” through town and countryside rife with philosophic musings, The Walk has been hailed as the masterpiece of Walser’s short prose. Walking features heavily in his writing, but nowhere else is it as elegantly considered. Without walking, “I would be dead,” Walser explains, “and my profession, which I love passionately, would be destroyed. Because it is on walks that the lore of nature and the lore of the country are revealed, charming and graceful, to the sense and eyes of the observant walker.” The Walk was the first piece of Walser’s work to appear in English, and the only one translated before his death.

translated by Susan Bernofsky and Christopher Middleton

The Walk

This is a generous compendium of Christopher Middleton's work from nine books published between 1962 and 1986, with a later section of recent work and two essays.--From jacket flap

Selected Writings

German Writing Today

William Coats

Being the Remarks of Captain W. Coats in Many Voyages to that Locality Between the Years 1727 and 1751

The Geography of Hudson's Bay

"The Anti-Basilisk falls into five sections, two of them comprising sets of twenty poems, the fifth translations from Catullus, Rilke, Mauron and Desnos. The coda is spoken from inside an oil sketch by Rubens, reintroducing a recurrent motif of the lion."--BOOK JACKET.

The Anti-basilisk

Leticia Garza Falcon

This stunning collection of poems opens up an entire world: the rich, virile, and highly literate Moslem culture of medieval Spain. This pioneering volume spans the full range of poetic emotion and enterprise, making this lost world of a millennium ago marvellously tangible, vivid and palpable. It pays special attention to the female poets, and to the evolution and meaning of the verse structures and songforms. This is a work of scholarly importance as well as a straightforward poetic pleasure.

Andalusian Poems

Bolshevism in Art, and Other Expository Writings

Our Flowers & Nice Bones

Serpentine

Christopher Middleton's writing in Crypto-Topographia falls within the genre of 'short prose', which Middleton defines as 'liminal, ludic and disruptive'. Many of the texts concern places, singly or clustered, which offer their own secret store of time: lived time, signs of presence, whispers or howls. Time is stretched back, folded or pretended, and can transform a group of trees into 'the locus of a drama' ('A Close Shave With Sacrilege'). Sometimes place is supplanted by object: sliding carpets and material colour... Dispersed among variously 'situated' texts, history scintillates, not as a plan, but as an ensemble of glimpses. The epilogue records a strange episode of travel, 'The Gaze of the Turkish Mona Lisa', a masterly description of a Turkish lady, whom Middleton manages to depict, while refraining from looking at her.

Christopher Middleton

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