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Essays, Manifestos, Statements, Speeches, Maxims, Epistles, Diaristic Jottings, Narratives, Natural histories, Poems, Plays, Performances, Ramblings, Revelations, and all such ephemera as may appear necessary to bring society into a slight tremolo of confusion and fright at least.

Selected Poems

Else Lasker-Schüler

Translated from the German by Jeanette Litman-Demeestère and Audri Durchslag-Litt.
With an Introduction and Notes by the Translators and a Preface by Yehuda Amichai.

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Else Lasker-Schüler was a leading Expressionist poet and one of the most prominent women writers of the early 20th century. She has been described by karl Kraus as "the greatest lyric poet of modern Germany." Lasker-Schüler lived the life of a bohemian, sharing the artistic milieu of post World War I Berlin with friends such as Franz Marc and Gottfriedd Benn. When the Nazi government took power, Lasker-Schüler, after being accosted by a group of Nazis and beaten with an iron rod,immediately boarded a train to leave Germany. After a short stay in Zurich, her last years were spent in Israel, where she aligned herself with experimental writers celebrating their Jewish heritage.

Else Lask-r-Schüler's most noted collections of poetry are Hebrew Ballads (1913) and My Blue Piano (1943), large selections from which appear in this volume.