Jan Wagner has published numerous poetry collections, including The Owl-Haters in the Hall Houses, Three Concealed Poets (Hanser Berlin Verlag, Berlin, 2012), and Rain Barrel Variations (Hanser Berlin Verlag, Berlin, 2014). For his poetry he has received many literary awards, most recently the Ernst Meister Award for Poetry (2005), the Wilhelm Lehmann Award (2009), the Kranichsteiner Award for Literature (2011), and the Friedrich Hölderlin Award of the city of Tübingen (2011). Translator David Keplinger is the author of five collections of poetry, including the forthcoming Another City (Milkweed, 2018). His translations in collaboration with Jan Wagner, The Art of Topiary, will appear in 2017 from Milkweed Editions.
July/Aug 2017
histories: onesilos; in the well
Translated from German by David Keplinger histories: onesilos The people of Amathus cut the head from Onesilos’ dead body, for he had besieged the city; they took the head with […]