Poems. Selections. English

Songs from a single eye / Oswald von Wolkenstein ; translated from the Middle High German with vita and notes by Richard Sieburth ; foreword by Siegfried Walter de Rachewiltz.

New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, [2019]

68 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

BEIN New Directions 1884: Original wrappers.

Translated from the Middle High German into English.

"The one-eyed singer, songwriter, and knight errant Oswald von Wolkenstein (surname literally "Cloud-Stone") was among the last of the great troubadours. A contemporary of Villon, versed in Petrarch, and a Knight of the Holy Sepulchre, Wolkenstein was lost to history until scholarship in the 1970s recognized him as the German language's first genuinely autobiographical lyric voice. In the hands of the magician-translator Richard Sieburth, working in the spirited tradition of Ezra Pound and Paul Blackburn, Wolkenstein's verse rises from the page like a medieval Bob Dylan. Facsimiles of Wolkenstein's musical compositions are included"-- Provided by publisher.

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February 12, 2020