Georg Trakl — Poems

Georg Trakl (1887-1914) was an Austrian German-language poet, one of the representatives of German expressionism. Trakl studied in Salzburg and Vienna, where he began to write and publish poems and plays, in particular for the magazine Der Brenner, which was fashionable among creative youth. There he led a bohemian life and became addicted to cocaine and alcohol.
With the beginning of World War I, he joined the Austro-Hungarian Army, where he served in a field hospital. During the fighting in Galicia, Trakl, overwhelmed by the number of wounded whom he could not help, attempted suicide. On November 3, 1914, Trakl took his own life in a Krakow hospital by taking a fatal dose of morphine.
This collection includes selected poems by Trakl translated by Oleksandr Andrijewski.
The collection is complemented by illustrations by contemporary Ukrainian artist Gurge Feodor.