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 PresentFrom: 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 Mourbaning Then (Kann keine Trauer sein)
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