Thought Poems: A Translation of Heidegger's Verse

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Heideggers turn to poetry in the latter half of his career is well known, but his own verse has to date received relatively little attention. How can we understand Heideggerian poetics without a thorough reading of the poets own verse Thought-Poems offers a translation of GA81 of Heideggers collected works, where the reader can read the German version alongside the English text. Musical, allusive, engaged deeply with humanitys primordial relationships, the Gedachtes or thought-poems here translated show Heideggers language at its most beautiful, and open new ways to conceive of the relationship between language and being.

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"Walls' translation of Heidegger's Thought Poems (Gedachtes) will prove to be the most authoritative and illuminating commentary on and annotation to Heidegger's voluminous philosophical, discursive, and analytical work.... Walls' magnificent translation utterly transforms Heidegger's legacy from here on. Essential. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." --N. Lukacher, emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago, Choice Reviews

Walls' translation of Heidegger's Thought Poems (Gedachtes) will prove to be the most authoritative and illuminating commentary on and annotation to Heidegger's voluminous philosophical, discursive, and analytical work.... Walls' magnificent translation utterly transforms Heidegger's legacy from here on. Essential. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.

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Eoghan Walls is lecturer in creative writing at Lancaster University. He won an Eric Gregory Award for his own poetry in 2006 and has been highly commended in many other prizes, including the Manchester Poetry Prize, The Bridport Prize, and the Wigtown International Poetry Prize.