Selected Poems of Maria Luise Weissmann

When Munich-based poet Maria Luise Weissmann (1899-1929) died unexpectedly at the age of thirty, her peers on the German literary scene knew that the world had lost a poet of great promise-and one whose passing gave as much cause for grief, Otto Heuschele noted, as the recent death of Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Influenced by Hofmannsthal and Rilke both, Weissmann spoke with a voice that also recalled-in its formal restraint yet vulnerable candor-that of her American contemporary Edna St. Vincent Millay, though one distinctively her own. Her subjects were wide-ranging-saints, prophets, animals wild and domestic, characters from classic literature such as Don Quixote and Robinson Crusoe, the modern city, nature, and love-and her treatment of them was, by turns, solemn, witty, and profound. This volume provides, for the very first time, a substantial offering of her poems in an English version.

Author: William Ruleman, Maria Luise Weissmann
Publisher: Cedar Springs Books
Published: 10/04/2015
Pages: 68
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.14d
ISBN: 9780692479681

About the Author
Maria Luise Weissmann was born in Schweinfurt am Main, Germany in 1899. Her father, a teacher, and mother both encouraged her intellectually, and the family's move to Nuremberg during World War I broadened her horizons. It was there that her first attempts at poetry were published, under the pseudonym M. Wels. She later settled in Munich, occupying various secretarial posts, and in 1922 married Heinrich F. S. Bachmair, who published her four collections of verse as well as her translations of Paul Verlaine and Blaise Cendrars. She died of an infection resulting from angina in 1929.

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