Georg Trakl

A bilingual volume by an Austrian-born writer who suffered tragic experiences during World War I and who died at the age of twenty-seven evinces a romantically heightened interior world of suffering and hoped-for transcendence. Reprint.

Selected Poems of Georg Trakl

Autumn Sonata

An undeniable aura surrounds the name of Georg Trakl, a poet of intense inner vision and originality whose work stands alongside that of Yeats, Valery, and T. S. Eliot. The distinctive tone of Trakl's work--especially admired by his patron Ludwig Wittgenstein--is autumnal and melancholy. Trakl was writing at a time of spiritual and social disintegration on the eve of the First World War, when personal values and perceptions tended to be subsumed in a more generalized anguish and exaltation.

A Bilingual Edition

Poems and Prose

Rêve et folie ["Traum und Umnachtung"] et autres poèmes, par Georg Trakl. Texte allemand. Traduction et préface par Henri Stierlin

selected poems of Georg Trakl

Song of the departed

Selected Poems

Twenty Poems of Georg Trakl

A new translation by acclaimed poet Will Stone of the visionary Austrian poet Georg Trakl Georg Trakl is recognised as one of the most important European poets of the twentieth century. His visionary poetry has influenced not only later poets but also composers, artists and filmmakers. The full measure of Trakl's genius can be appreciated in this extensive Collected Poems, intuitively translated by poet Will Stone, which features the key collections including the posthumously published Sebastian in Dream, 1915. Supplementary to these are the poems originally published in the literary journal Der Brenner as well as a discerning selection of Trakl's uncollected work. Trakl's trademark tonal qualities, his melancholy stamp, the often apocalyptic but eerily beautiful language gradually infect the reader. His poems are awash with images, symbolic colours and signs; mysterious dream-like figures appear and vanish, and an alternative world is born out of the unconscious. The most sensitive observer of Trakl's poetry was his contemporary, Rainer Maria Rilke, who concluded: 'For me, the Trakl poem is an object of sublime existence...' Georg Trakl (1887–1914) was born in Salzburg, Austria, and spent his youth there. He began writing poetry at age 13 and later became apprentice to a pharmacist in Salzburg, then went on to take a degree in pharmacy at the University of Vienna. Following his father's death in 1910 Trakl enlisted in the army, eventually working in the military hospital in Innsbruck. With the outbreak of World War I, Trakl volunteered as a medical orderly and attended soldiers at the Eastern Front in Galicia. After the battle of Grodek, he suffered a mental collapse and was confined to a military hospital in Kraków where he died of a cocaine overdose.

Collected Poems of Georg Trakl

Surrender to Night

Mimpi dan kelam jiwa

Le poesie. Testo tedesco a fronte

The essential Trakl, as published by the great poet in his lifetime, gracefully and sensitively rendered.

The Poems of Georg Trakl

Poems

Aldo Pellegrini

Poemas

The Complete Poetry and Prose of Georg Trakl

Ruth Fox Mussler

A Translation

A Selection of Georg Trakl's Poems, 1909-1912

Twenty Poems

Marked by the perpetual use of nightmarish visions of disintegration, death, murder, and natural decay, Georg Trakl's poems bear haunting witness to a world devoid of faith, meaning, and hope

The Damned

The Austrian poet Georg Trakl (1887-1914) wrote with a singular voice that captivated a wide range of admirers: the philosophers Heidegger and Wittgenstein; fellow writers and poets like Beckett, Rilke, and Walser; and composers such as Webern and Hindemith. Two collections of his poetry were prepared for publication during his lifetime. The vast majority of poems in the first book, Poems (1913), feature crystalline meters and regular rhyme schemes that produce a hypnotic music. In the second book, Sebastian in a Dream (1915), the reverse is true, and most poems are written in free verse. These translations reproduce the musical experience of the first book for the English reader. Here the formal elements provide a little air, a little lift on which the poet’s simple words and surprising invocations go gliding by in all their mystery.

Poems (1913)

Decline ... Poems by Georg Trakl, 1887-1914

Hopkins Center. Design Studio

6 Poems by Georg Trakl (1889-1914)

Georg Trakl

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