A publishing landmark--the first major collection of poems by one of the late twentieth century's literary masters
German-born W. G. Sebald is best known as the innovative author of "Austerlitz, "the prose classic of World War II culpability and conscience that "The Guardian" called "a new literary form, part hybrid novel, part memoir, part travelogue." Its publication put Sebald in the company of Nabokov, Calvino, and Borges. Yet Sebald's brilliance as a poet has been largely unacknowledged--until now.
Skillfully translated by Iain Galbraith, the nearly one hundred poems in "Across...