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Peter Filkins is the translator of Ingeborg Bachmann’s complete poems, Darkness Spoken, as well as her two novel fragments, The Book of Franza and Requiem for Fanny Goldmann. The author of a biography, H.G. Adler: A Life in Many Worlds, he has also published five collections of poetry, most recently Water / Music. He teaches at Bard College.
On the first English translation of the Austrian poet’s critical writings, composed in the shadow of fascism.
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