In 1984 Edward Snow won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets for the first volume of these translations of Rainer Maria Rilke's watershed work, NEW POEMS, 1907. His work was praised for the resonance of the English and its faithfulness to the density and meaning of the German. Like the poems in the first volume, these are presentations of objects, "thing-poems" (Dinggedichte). In 1902 Rilke left Germany for...

Als DJ hat es Finn in der ältesten und erfolgreichsten Diskothek der Stadt relativ leicht. Fast an jedem Wochenende lernt er neue Frauen kennen. Nur leider ist für ihn nie die ›Richtige‹ dabei. Schon seit Jahren ist Finn auf der Suche nach dem Gefühl, das er als Jugendlicher verspürt hat. Damals hat sein Herz deutliche Zeichen gegeben, sobald ›die Richtige‹ vor ihm stand. Vielleicht gelingt es ihm in dieser Nacht, dieses Gefühl noch einmal...

Rainer Maria Rilke's move to Paris in 1902 and his close association with Rodin led him to take a new direction in his poetry. Between 1906 and 1908 he produced a torrent of brilliant work that was published in two separate volumes under the title Neue Gedichte, or New Poems. As the celebrated Rilke translator Edward Snow observes, these books "together constitute one of the great instances of the lyric quest for objective experience." Here is the...

Set in late-19th century Germany, 'The Awakening of Spring' concerns teenagers who are discovering the inner and outer tumult of sexuality. The play's debut performance in English, in New York City, was threatened with closure when the city's Commissioner of Licenses claimed that the play was pornographic, due to its portrayal of abortion, homosexuality, rape, child abuse and suicide. But, a New York trial court issued an injunction to allow the production...

An exhilarating and unsentimental exploration of working-class life in Belfast. Development. Hotels, spas, Nando's, boutiques. Belfast is changing, but for some people, progress means new barriers. A group of construction workers is building an extension to the Peace Wall that separates Them-ens from Us-ens. When Polish worker ri's daughter starts having serious problems with her boyfriend, they rally round in support. But good intentions can easily...

“Kaspar” is the story of an autistic adolescent who finds himself at a complete existential loss on the stage, with but a single sentence to call his own. Drilled by prompters who use terrifyingly funny logical and a logical language-sequences, Kaspar learns to speak "normally" and eventually becomes creative-"doing his own thing" with words; for this he is destroyed. In “Offending the Audience and Self-Accusation”, one-character "speak-ins,"...

Now substantially revised by Edward Snow, whom Denise Levertov once called "far and away Rilke's best translator," this bilingual edition of The Book of Images contains a number of the great poet's previously untranslated pieces. Also included are several of Rilke's best-loved lyrics, such as "Autumn," "Childhood," "Lament," "Evening," and "Entrance."

Few American readers seem to be aware that Hermann Hesse, author of the epic novels Steppenwolf and Siddhartha, among many others, also wrote poetry, the best of which the poet James Wright has translated and included in this book. This is a special volume-filled with short, direct poems about love, death, loneliness, the seasons-that is imbued with some of the imagery and feeling of Hesse's novels but that has a clarity and resonance all its own,...

A new collection of poems by Michael Hofmann- his first in twenty years Michael Hofmann, renowned as one of our most brilliant critics and translators, is also regarded as among our most respected poets. Hofmann's status-he is the author of "one of the definitive bodies of work of the last half-century" (The Times Literary Supplement)-is all the more impressive for his relatively concentrated output. One Lark, One Horse is his fifth collection...

Brüssel im 16. Jahrhundert: Die Niederlande wollen das Joch der spanisch-habsburgischen Herrschaft abschütteln. Ihre Hoffnung ruht auf Graf Egmont, einem der drei niederländischen Statthalter. Er erscheint ihnen als der ideale Volksführer, großherzig, verantwortungsvoll und beliebt. Sein Gegenspieler, der brutale Herzog Alba, folgt allein den Gesetzen der Staatsautorität. Er führt den freiheitlich denkenden Egmont mit einer List ins Verderben. Mit...