We invite you to an evening with Will
Stone and Jeremy Adler who will
read from and discuss
Surrender to Night with us over a
glass of wine!
In Georg Trakl’s brief, tragic life he
produced a body of work of
intense visual power. Dense,
imagistic and full of unnerving symbolism, his poems
occupy a critical space in German
Expressionism.
Until his death on the Eastern Front in
1914, Trakl honed a singular
poetic voice to express the
horror he saw in the world around him, culminating
in the starkly powerful war poems for
which he is best known.
This edition includes all of Trakl’s
major poems alongside a judicious
selection of the best of his
uncollected work, all rendered in a vividly clear
and sensitively attuned English by
translator and poet Will Stone.
With a biography, a critical introduction
and a chronology of Trakl’s life, this
collection promises to
reinvigorate interest in this
under-appreciated poet.
Will Stone (b. 1966) is a writer, poet
and translator of French, Belgian
and German literature, living in
Suffolk. He holds a degree in
Literary Translation from the University of East
Anglia, Norwich, and has produced prose
and poetry translations of the
works of Stefan Zweig, Emile
Verhaeren, Georges Rodenbach, Maurice Maeterlinck,
Rainer Maria Rilke and Joseph Roth,
among others.
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