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To the Silenced: Selected Poems
by Georg Trakl
Bilingual English / German edition
Translated from the German, and introduced, by Will Stone
Part of our Arc Classics: New Translations of Great Poets of the Past series edited by Jean Boase-Beier
Although the Austrian poet Georg Trakl was born over a century ago, the mesmerizing imagery and haunting visions of his highly sensitive and morbidly introspective poetry are as powerful today as they were when he poured forth his extraordinary and unclassifiable volume of work.
A source of inspiration for artists, musicians and writers through the Expressionist period and beyond, Trakl's poetry bleak, yet full of tenderness and hope, nightmarish yet eerily beautiful has steadfastly defied any coherent critical analysis.
Will Stone's outstanding new translation, in a parallel-text edition complete with contextualizing essays, promises to rekindle interest in the work of this seminal poet.
...obsessional motifs, clusters of words, colours and images... has the rare ability to ripple outwards and beyond the immediate meaning of his words. ... this poetry should sound rather odd to our ears... poetry of luminous terror. Stone's distinctive approach manages to be very objective precisely because of his personal insights.
...obscure, oblique, opaque even... one of my favourite poets... Trakl's poems are beautiful and unique, they are the work of an expressionist and should be read widely. They will stand the test of time, again and again...
The world outside was always something seemingly out of joint, screened off from his conscious awareness of it. ...he lived his life inside the body of a self already lost. His poems on the other hand are so acute, so memorable...
...extraordinarily powerful, disturbing, poignant and beautiful poetry... Will Stone's selection... a very positive contribution... most successful in his grasp of the moments of uneasy calm...has a sure touch with the distinctive Trakl tone of ominous threat.
I thought the translations terrific in their closeness to the spirit of the German and the shapes of sound they made. I enjoyed the intro and notes too... The volume is a really good introduction to Trakl and his times for an English reader and deserves to be well known. I am very glad to have it.
Paperback
168 pages
ISBN 1-904614-10-8
Published November 2005
