Poetry in Translation: Selections From Georg Trakl

Austrian poet Georg Trakl made his mark with simple, measured language that powerfully evokes his experience of living. Join Renée Price, Director, and Scott Gutterman, Deputy Director of Neue Galerie New York for “Poetry in Translation: Selections from Georg Trakl,” a bilingual reading in German and English.

A prominent theme in Trakl’s poetry is silence, in particular the silence of the dead. Out of these dark preoccupations, he created works of great beauty. Featured poems in this reading include Trakl’s Die Sonne, In Venedig, Sebastian im Traum, and Sommer.