The Loveliest Vowel Empties. Collected Poems

Meret Oppenheim

Publisher:
World Poetry Books

The collected poems of legendary Swiss Surrealist Meret Oppenheim, for the first time in English.

"I am in awe of Meret Oppenheim’s poems, a seismic force heretofore unknown to me. Her aesthetic compatriots include Alejandra Pizarnik, Georg Trakl, Max Jacob, and Paul Celan—artists of deep symbol, deep void. Kathleen Heil’s translations are themselves works of the highest literary refinement and ingenuity. To read Oppenheim’s lyric bulletins, conveyed tactfully into English, is to feel that we are plunging for the first time into the pure waters of poetry itself, impervious to fad. No dross, no affectation: instead, Oppenheim gives us strangeness, tone, translucency." - Wayne Koestenbaum

 

Year
2023
Length
125 pages
Cover
Softback
Binding
Perfect binding
Dimensions
22,4 x 14,3 cm.

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