Selected Poetry by Friedrich Hölderlin, trans. by David Constantine
PBS Winter Recommended Translation 2018 Amali Rodrigo Nothing strikes the interlocutor quite

Nothing strikes the interlocutor quite as he intends

that it feels distilled rather than made

‘An English Girl Eats Her First Mango’

making Brother a searing but ultimately up-lifting journey of grief

The author is a realist and a formalist

Selected Poetry by Friedrich Hölderlin, trans. by David Constantine <br><b>PBS Winter Recommended Translation 2018</b> Amali Rodrigo Nothing strikes the interlocutor quiteFriedrich Hlderlin was one of Europes greatest poets. The strange and beautiful language of his late poems is recreated by David Constantine in these remarkable verse translations. This is a new expanded edition of Constantines widely praised Hlderlin Selected Poems (1990 1996), containing many new translations as well as the whole of Hlderlin's Sophocles (2001), in which he sought to create an equivalent English for Hlderlin's extraordinary German