Darkness SpokenIngeborg Bachmann (translated by Peter Filkins) Darkness Spoken gathers together Ingeborg Bachmanns two celebrated books of poetry, as well as the early and late poems not collected in book form. This new revised second edition (2024) has everything the first edition (2005) had, plus more. It contains the 129 poems that had then just been released from Bachmanns archives and had never before been translated, twenty five of which appeared in German for

with the knowledge of another reality occurring elsewhere

not to stake a claim or to fasten themselves

ongoing crisis

in which thoughts touch us ‘like soft rain’

and heartbreak

In Border Wisdom

through her nightly tale-telling

in de tussenwereld waar zijn hersenen defect zijn en de diagnose nog niet is gesteld

From the darkness of this “comajubilation

Pavel Khazanov

in which a devotional approach to music and desire reestablishes communication between the poet's body and the world

Throughout this book-length poem