Of Entirety Say the Sentence

By Ernst Meister, Translated by Graham Foust and Samuel Frederick

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• One of the last books by post-war German poet and Georg Büchner Prize winner Ernst Meister—and the third to be translated into English by poet Graham Foust and scholar Samuel Frederick—Of Entirety Say the Sentence is his most expansive book. With rich allusions to Hölderlin and Celan, these poems are staggering in their scope of mortality, time, and infinity. Bilingual (German/English) edition.
  
  The other two books in the trilogy are In Time's Rift (2012) and Wallless Space (2014), which was shortlisted for the National Translation Award in Poetry.
  
  Check out pictures and notes from Graham Foust's visit to the Ernst Meister archives: Part 1 and Part 2.
  
  Named one of the best poetry books of 2015 by Entropy Magazine

• Arguably the most emotionally resonant of Meister’s late trilogy, this collection carves out a much-needed space for an essential and often overlooked poet.
  Publishers Weekly
  
  Meister compacts a meditation on the nature of space, nothingness and our interaction with the two in the work’s sparse, dense lines.
  Lindsay Choi, The Daily Californian