Music While Drowning German Expressionist Poems

by Miller, David; Watts, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9781854374714
• ISBN10: 1854374710
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Tate

Summary

Although the Expressionists are renowned for their dynamic and emotionally challenging imagery, their literary masterpieces remain a well-kept secret. Here, for the first time, is an anthology of some of the very best poems from the Expressionist era, by radical artists and writers such as Wassily Kandinsky, Egon Schiele, Georg Trakl, and Else Lasker-Schuler.

Table of Contents

David Constantine
German Expressionist Poetry	8	(6)
Wassily Kandinsky (1866--1944)
Still?	14	(2)
Sounds	16	(2)
Exit	18	(1)
Else Lasker-Schuler (1869--1945)
Jacob	19	(1)
Georg Grosz	20	(2)
Hagar and Ishmael	22	(1)
Reconciliation	23	(1)
Homesickness	24	(1)
To Giselheer the King	25	(2)
The Blue Piano	27	(1)
Oh God	28	(1)
A Love Song	29	(1)
To the Barbarian:	30	(1)
August Stramm (1874--1915)
Rendez-Vous	31	(1)
Love-Fight	32	(2)
Primal Death	34	(2)
Dream	36	(1)
Fickleness	37	(1)
Desperate	38	(1)
Melancholy	38	(1)
Encounter	39	(1)
Fallen	40	(1)
War Instinct	41	(1)
Attack	42	(2)
Ernst Stadler (1883--1914)
On Crossing the Rhine Bridge at Cologne by Night	44	(1)
Children in Front of a London Eating-House for the Poor	45	(1)
Ernst Stadler (1883--1914)
Setting Out	46	(1)
Small Town	47	(2)
Max Beckmann (1884--1950)
Autobiography	49	(1)
Hugo Ball (1886--1927)
The Sun	50	(3)
King Solomon	53	(1)
Waga the Serpent	54	(1)
Cimio	55	(1)
Gottfried Benn (1886--1956)
A Bunch of Drifter Sons Hollered	56	(2)
Happy Youth	58	(2)
Little Aster	60	(1)
Underground Train	61	(1)
Palau	62	(2)
Oskar Kokoschka (1886--1980)
From The Dreaming Boys	64	(3)
Georg Trakl (1887--1914)
Summer	67	(1)
To the Silenced	68	(1)
Night	69	(1)
To the Boy Elis	70	(1)
Eastern Front	71	(1)
De Profundis	72	(2)
Decline	74	(1)
Complaint	75	(1)
Occident	76	(2)
Grodek	78	(2)
Jakob van Hoddis (1887--1942)
End of the World	80	(1)
Georg Heym (1887--1912)
Last Watch	81	(1)
The Prisoners I	82	(1)
Georg Heym (1887--1912)
Berlin I	83	(1)
The Demons of the Cities	84	(3)
Blue. White. Green	87	(1)
Robespierre	88	(1)
Hunger	89	(1)
Kurt Schwitters (1887--1948)
Wound Roses Roses Bleed	90	(1)
Evening	91	(1)
Repose	91	(1)
For Franz Marc	92	(1)
Hans Arp (1887--1966)
The Bird Plus Three	93	(1)
I am a Horse	94	(2)
Untitled	96	(1)
Egon Schiele (1890--1918)
Self Portrait 1 & 2	97	(1)
Visions	98	(2)
Music while Drowning	100	(1)
Ivan Goll (1891--1950)
Bloodhound	101	(1)
The Cinema Manager	102	(2)
Poem in Prose	104	(1)
Journey into Misery	105	(1)
Ode to Berlin	106	(3)
Underworld	109	(1)
Anton Schnack (1892--1970)
Nightscape	110	(2)
Screams	112	(2)
David Miller & Stephen Watts
Afterword	114	(4)
Credits	118	(2)
List of illustrated works	120