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  • If You’re the Dreamer, I’m the Dream
    Wally Swist
    Rilke’s The Book of Hours is best stated by Wolfgang Leppmann in his inestimably valuable biography of Rilke, entitled Rilke: A Life (New York: Fromm International, 1984). This paragraph is quoted from page 115:           'With the New Poems, the Duino Elegies, and the Sonnets to Orpheus, the Book of Hours is one of the masterworks of modern German poetry.It’s title is taken fr...
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    25,77 €

  • L’Allegria
    Giuseppe Ungaretti / Wally Swist
    'Trench warfare and lyric poetry are an unusual-pairing. Some readers would doubtless even recoil at the notion of linking the two. After all, the former shows the ugliness and bestiality that mankind is all too capable of inflicting on the world. The latter, on the other hand, shows the beauty and humanity to which the genius of the human mind can aspire and the lasting beauty...
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    17,80 €

  • A Writer’s Statements on Beauty
    Wally Swist
    This collection of essays and reviews extends and complements the work collected in two earlier volumes: Singing for Nothing: Selected Nonfiction as Literary Memoir (The Operating System, 2018) and On Beauty: Essays, Reviews, Fiction, and Plays (Adelaide Books, 2018). The essays and reviews presented in Parts I and II were written roughly between 2010 and 2021, while the review...
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    16,18 €

  • Taking Residence
    Wally Swist
    Rainer Maria Rilke wrote in a letter-later collected in the posthumous book Letters to a Young Poet-that a writer always has a storehouse of inspiration to draw upon from childhood memories. Wally Swist’s seventeenth full-length collection of poetry, Taking Residence, begins with poems regarding childhood memories and, in quite a symphonic manner, concludes with them. A collect...
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    12,04 €

  • Singing for Nothing
    Wally Swist
    'It turns out Wally Swist is a skilled essayist and reviewer as well as a celebrated poet and a decidedly eclectic reader. Singing for Nothing (the title alone says something about the condition of poetry) is a refined review of the work of both known and overlooked contemporary poets, as well as essays and reviews of the work of a range of artists, writers, and even scientists...
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    21,92 €