Bachmann, Ingeborg / Filkins, Peter (tr.): Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann

Zephyr Press, paperback Publication Date: May 7th, 2024 Translated by: Peter Filkins Publisher Marketing: First published by Zephyr Press in 2006, Darkness Spoken is the most complete volume of Ingeborg Bachmann's poetry in English and German. Considered one of the premiere poets of her generation, Bachmann's various awards include the Georg Büchner Prize, the Berlin Critics Prize, the Bremen Award, and the Austrian State Prize for literature. Darkness Spoken collects her two celebrated books of poetry, as well as the early and late poems not collected in book form. This volume also contains 129 poems released from Bachmann's archives that had never been translated before 2006. Twenty-five of them also appeared in German for the first time. Continued research by Peter Fikins on Bachmann's writing since 2006 as well as his current work on Bachmann's biography (forthcoming, Yale University Press), has afforded him the opportunity to draw even closer to Bachmann's poems and appreciate mor