“I cannot escape the shadow that walks behind me.”
About Georg Trakl
3 February 1887–3 November 1914
In the brief span of twenty-seven years, Georg Trakl created a body of work that would forever alter the landscape of German-language poetry. His verses, saturated with autumnal imagery, spiritual anguish, and apocalyptic visions, emerged from the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and spoke to a civilization on…