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Imperfect Penance

Imperfect Penance

Parry, Mitchell

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General PoetryGeneral Political Science

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ISBN10: 0864925174
ISBN13: 9780864925176
Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
Published: Sep 1 2008
Pages: 108
Language: English

Passion, obsession, addiction, vision, and despair -- these are just a few of the themes explored by Mitchell Parry in this poignant portrait of Austrian poet Georg Trakl. Born in Saltzburg in the second half of the 19th century, Trakl was severely addicted at an early age. He smoked opium and later took up chloroform, alcohol, and cocaine. He was passionately obsessed with his younger sister, witnessed the bodies of partisans hanging in trees, and attempted suicide on more than one occasion. He died at the age of twenty-four, leaving behind a legacy of poems that capture the anxiety, passion, and exhaustion of early twentieth-century Austria and the years leading up to the First World War.

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