"the shadow that I cast is the shadow that I cast"
Grass, Bachmann, Bobrowski, Heissenbüttel, Rilke
Günter Grass (tr. from German by Jerome Rothenberg):
Ingeborg Bachmann (tr. from German by Peter Filkins):
Joannes Bobrowski (tr. from German by Ruth and Matthew Mead):
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Helmut Heissenbüttel (tr. from German by Jerome Rothenberg):
Rainer Maria Rilke to Witold Hulewicz, November 13, 1925):
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Ingeborg Bachmann is everything. Thank you.