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Author:

Sebald, Winfried Georg, 1944-2001.

Title:

Across the land and the water : selected poems, 1964-2001 / W.G. Sebald ; translated by Iain Galbraith.

Edition:

1st U.S. ed.

Publisher:

Random House,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xix, 166 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Poetry.

Other Authors:

Galbraith, Iain.

Other Titles:

Über das Land und das Wasser. 2008

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-166).

Contents:

Bleston : a Mancunian cantical. Children's song. A colony of allotments -- Smoke will stir -- The intention is sealed -- Nymphenburg -- Epitaph -- Schattwald in Tyrol -- Remembered triptych of a journey from Brussels -- Life is beautiful -- Matins for G. -- Winter poem -- Lines for an album -- Bleston : a Mancunian cantical. Fête nocturne ; Consensus omnium ; The sound of music ; Lingua mortua ; Perdu dans ces filaments -- Didsbury -- Giulietta's birthday -- Time signal at twelve -- Children's song.
School Latin. Baroque Psalter. Legacy -- Sarassani -- Day's residue -- Border crosser -- Lay of ill luck -- Memorandum of the divan -- Il ritorno d'Ulisse -- For a Northern reader -- Florean exercise -- Scythian journey -- Saumur, selon Valéry -- L'instruction du roy -- Festifal -- Pneumatological prose -- Comic opera -- Timetable -- Unexplored -- Elizabethan -- Baroque Psalter.
Across the land and the water. New Jersey journey. Near Crailsheim -- Poor Summer in Franconia -- Solnhofen -- Leaving Bavaria -- Something in my ear -- Panacea -- Mithraic -- Memo -- Barometer reading -- K.'s emigration -- Through Holland in the dark -- Abandoned -- Mölkerbastei -- A galley lies off Helsingborg -- Holkham gap -- Norfolk -- Crossing the water -- Natural history -- Ballad -- Obscure passage -- Poetry for an album -- Eerie effects of the Hell Valley wind on my nerves -- Unidentified flying objects -- The sky at night -- A peaceable kingdom -- Trigonometry of the spheres -- Day return -- New Jersey journey.
Appendix : October heat wave. A waltz dream -- Donderdag -- The secrets -- On 9 June 1904 -- Ninety years later -- In Bamberg -- Marienbad elegy -- At the edge -- And always -- How silvery -- Somewhere -- In the sleepless -- Room 645 -- My ICE rail-planner -- One Sunday in Autumn 94 -- Calm November weather -- Unchanged for years -- In the Summer of 1836 -- In Alfermée -- On the eve of -- In the paradise landscape -- Appendix : I remember ; October heat wave.

ISBN:

9781400068906 (hbk.)
1400068908 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)786033045

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

HYAX325 -- Iowa Lakes Community College Library - Estherville (Estherville)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)