{"product_id":"across-the-land-and-the-water-across-the-land-and-the-water-selected-poems-1964-2001-9780812981100","title":"Across the Land and the Water: Across the Land and the Water: Selected Poems, 1964-2001","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"A splendid addition to an already extraordinary oeuvre.\"--Teju Cole, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e German-born W. G. Sebald is best known as the innovative author of \u003ci\u003eAusterlitz, \u003c\/i\u003ethe prose classic of World War II culpability and conscience that put its author in the company of Nabokov, Calvino, and Borges. Now comes the first major collection of this literary master's poems. Skillfully translated by Iain Galbraith, they range from pieces Sebald wrote as a student in the sixties to those completed right before his untimely death in 2001. In nearly one hundred poems--the majority published in English for the first time--Sebald explores his trademark themes, from nature and history, to wandering and wondering, to oblivion and memory. Soaring and searing, the poetry of W. G. Sebald is an indelible addition to his superb body of work, and this collection is bound to become a classic in its own right.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"How fortunate we are to have this writer's startling imagination freshly on display once again, expressed in language honed to a perfect simplicity.\"--Billy Collins\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"A watershed volume . . . nothing less than transcendent.\"--\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"[Sebald was] a defining writer of his era.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e W. G. Sebald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Modern Library\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/09\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.16w x 0.72d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780812981100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eW. G. Sebald\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany, in 1944. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland, and Manchester. He taught at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, for thirty years, becoming professor of European literature in 1987, and from 1989 to 1994 was the first director of the British Centre for Literary Translation. His previously translated books--\u003ci\u003eThe Rings of Saturn, The Emigrants, Vertigo, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAusterlitz\u003c\/i\u003e--have won a number of international awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Award, the Berlin Literature Prize, and the LiteraTour Nord Prize. He died in December 2001. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIain Galbraith \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Glasgow in 1956 and studied modern languages and comparative literature at the universities of Cambridge, Freiburg, and Mainz, where he taught for several years. He has edited works by Stevenson, Hogg, Scott, Boswell, and Conrad, and contributed essays to many books and journals in the U.K., France, and Germany. He is a widely published translator of German-language writing, especially poetry, into English, winning the John Dryden Prize for Literary Translation in 2004.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Modern Library","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43792742154355,"sku":"9.78081E+12","price":24.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_aec06399-11f6-4210-9ad2-811234209f78.jpg?v=1758104852","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/across-the-land-and-the-water-across-the-land-and-the-water-selected-poems-1964-2001-9780812981100","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}