Promotional Information

Original edition by Marsilio in 94 sold out quickly. Since the late 90s there has been no active edition of Bachmann's work. Over the past decade, her name has been gradually reaching the same import and respect afforded Paul Celan.

About the Author

A contemporary of Paul Celan, born in 1926, in 1953 received the poetry prize from Grupe 47. Her other awards include the Georg Buchner prize, the Berlin Critics Prize, the Bremen Award, and the Austrian State Prize for Literature. Filkins is a poet whose poems, translations, and reviews have appeared in such places as Agni, The American Poetry Review, and The Harvard Review. He teaches at the Bard College at Simon's Rock.