In Time’s Rift (Im Zeitspalt)

By  Ernst Meister, Translated by Graham Foust and Samuel Frederick Description Reviews Bio In Time's Rift is a translation of German poet Ernst Meister's penultimate collection and the middle volume of the informal trilogy which also includes, Wallless Space (Wave Books, 2014) and Of Entirety Say the Sentence (Wave Books, 2015). With their tortuous syntax and distinctive musicality, Meister’s brief, afflicted poems attend to the writer’s lifelong obsessions with being and mortality. Compact, abstract, and at times koan-like, their language might be described as an attempt at a written image of thought. First published in 1976 and appearing now for the first time in English in its entirety, Meister’s penultimate collection delivers a poetry comprised of equal parts philosophical rigor and lived experience.  This is a bilingual (German/English) edition. Check out pictures and notes from Graham Foust's visit to the Ernst Meister archives: Part 1 and Part 2. Like many other East