Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Great Regulars: We recognize these poems,

and we recognize ourselves in these poems, but in a way that goes beyond the power of words to make clear. As Wittgenstein put it, "I do not understand [[Georg] Trakl's poems]; but their tone pleases me."

Here's "De Profundis," one of my favorite of Trakl's individual poems:

from Powells: Review-A-Day: The Poems of Georg Trakl

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