Table of Contents
Foreword: E.B. Ashton
Introduction: Reinhard Paul Becker PART ONE:
PROSE The Birthday
Translated by E.B. Ashton Alexander's March by Means of Flushes
Translated by E.B. Ashton Primal Vision
Translated by E.B. Ashton From The Way of an Intellectualist
Translated by E.B. Ashton Wolf's Tavern
Translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins Block II, Room 66
From Double Life
Translated by E.B. Ashton The Glass-Blower
From The Ptolemean
Translated by Joel Agee Letter from Berlin, July 1948
Translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins PART TWO:
ESSAYS The Problem of Genius
Translated by Joel Agee Can Poets Change the World?
Translated by Joel Agee After Nihilism
Translated by Joel Agee Art and the Third Reich
Translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins Pallas
Translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins Pessimism
Translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins Induced Life
Translated by Joel Agee Future and Present
From: Double Life
Translated by E.B. Ashton Artists and Old Age
Translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins PART THREE:
POEMS Translated by E.B. Ashton, Robert M. Browning, Alexandra Chciuk-Celt, Joseph B. Dallet, Babette Deutsch, Richard Exner, Franz Feige, Patricia Gleason, Michael Hamburger, E.L. Kanes, Max Knight, Christopher Middleton, J.M. Ritchie, Karl F. Ross, Gertrude C. Schwebell, Richard Sieburth, Vernon Watkins, Kerry Weinberg Man and Woman Go through the Cancer Ward (Mann und Frau gehn durch die Krebsbaracke) Night Cafe (Nachtcafe) Appendectomy (Blinddarm) Songs (Gesange) Subway Train (Untergrundbahn) Icarus (Ikarus) The Late Ego (Das spate Ich) Who Are You (Wer bist Du-) Qui Sait From Far Shores, from Kingdoms (Aus Fernen, aus Reichen) And Yet, with Swords at the Ready (Dennoch die Schwerter halten) Yesteryear (Einst) Life-What a Vulgar Delusion! (Leben-niederer Wahn) He Who's Alone (Wer allein ist-) Never More Lonely (Einsamer nie-) Asters (Astern) Turin Poems (Gedichte) A Word (Ein Wort) Monologue (Monolog) Forsaken I (Verlorenes Ich) Wave of the Night (Welle der Nacht) Those Traits of Yours (Die Zuge Deiner-) Chopin September Quaternary (Quartar-) Epilogue (Epilog 1949) Fragments (Fragmente) Travel (Reisen) Bistro (Destille) What's Bad (Was Schlimm ist) Many Autumns (Viele Herbste) Two Things Only (Nur zwei Dinge) What Are You? (Aber Du-?) He Left the House (Verliess das Haus-) Tristesse Half-and-Half (Teils-Teils) But They Are Human (Das sind doch Menschen) Poem (Gedicht) Let's (Kommt-) Meeting People (Menschen getroffen) No Mourning Then (Kann keine Trauer sein)
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