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By Georg Heym
Translated by Antony Hasler
Libris, ISBN 1 870352874, £30 / pb £14.95
Series 3 No. 2 - DiasporaReview by Will Stone
It was once memorably stated of Chopin’s late ‘Polonaises’ that they were like the confessions of a man with his throat cut. One might say the same of the poetry of Georg Heym, which, following decades of woeful neglect, is at last made available to us in exemplary translations by Antony Hasler. Heym who died in 1912 in the most dreadful circumstances,... » Read review in full» More reviews in this issue
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Zefi Daraki’s powerfully visual collection evokes feelings of sorrow and isolation. The images are startlingly original and often exotic, creating a beautifully fractured world emphasised by the absence of punctuation. The title-less poems have the effect of a stream of consciousness, where the reader is immersed in the poet’s dream-like world of pain and surrender. Love is characterised as a redeeming but illusive presence; its “dark joy” resonant in every poem. I was struck by the conviction in her word choices, which entrusted the reader to bear witness to her images being “tangled firmly in ancient sorrows.” Stark and challenging.
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