Poetry. Translated from the German by Daniele Pantano. "Pantano, a renowned poet and translator, has brought both of these talents to bear on his project. His process was to loosely translate all of the poems of Georg Trakl, then order the lines in alphabetical order by their first words. One further aspect of the organization is that while these lines share this overt linguistic kinship--due to the alphabetical ordering, but also due to the frequent repetition of a starting word--the lines do not share any apparent meaning relations. Like the Persian ghazal, where each couplet is meant to...