Wallless Space

Description Reviews Wallless Space [Wandloser Raum] is a translation of German poet Ernst Meister's final collection and the last of the informal trilogy which also includes In Time's Rift (Wave Books, 2012) and Of Entirety Say the Sentence (Wave Books, 2015). Meister's poems are brief but dense, intense but playful; obsessed with mortality and the intersections of the everyday and the infinite. Bilingual (German/English) edition. Shortlisted for the National Translation Award in Poetry by the American Literary Translators AssociationListed in the top translations of 2014 by Three PercentCheck out pictures and notes from Graham Foust's visit to the Ernst Meister archives: Part 1 and Part 2. Each of Meister’s poems is small, hard, pointing both somewhere and nowhere… his lines, in their brevity, can be both elegant and unsettling, evocative of abstract questions about the nature of space and how thought can occupy it… His paradoxes sit there and expand, as do many poems from thi