Unrecounted (New Directions Paperbook) (Paperback)
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Short Description for Unrecounted A gorgeous illustrated poetry collection by W. G. Sebald: "An extraordinarily handsome edition of poems by the late great writer" (Confrontation).
Full description- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Published: 13 November 2007
- Format: Paperback 112 pages
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- Categories: Individual Artists, Art Monographs | Poetry By Individual Poets
- ISBN 13: 9780811217262 ISBN 10: 0811217264
- Sales rank: 235,992
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Full description for Unrecounted
Unrecounted combines thirty-three of what W. G. Sebald called his "micropoems" miniatures as unclassifiable as all of his works with thirty-three exquisitely exact lithographs by one of his oldest friends, the acclaimed artist Jan Peter Tripp. The lithographs portray, with stunning precision, pairs of eyes the eyes of Beckett, Borges, Proust Jasper Johns, Francis Bacon, Tripp, Sebald, Sebald's dog Maurice. Brief as haiku, the poems are epiphanic and anti-narrative. What the author calls "time lost, the pain of remembering, and the figure of death" here find a small home. The art and poems do not explain one another, but rather engage in a kind of dialogue. "The longer I look at the pictures of Jan Peter Tripp," Sebald comments in his essay, "the better I understand that behind the illusions of the surface, a dread-inspiring depth is concealed. It is the metaphysical lining of reality, so to speak."
