Twilight of Humanity: German Expressionist Poetry in English

Twilight of Humanity: German Expressionist Poetry in English

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"Dark Autumn Returns," by Georg Trakl (1914)
Poem no. 133 of 278 | "The abomination of bone arrives in bare pastures"
 • Oliver Sheppard
"The Ride," by Franz Werfel (1919)
Poem No. 66 of 278 | "I rode upon death, and I sang the rapture of the ride"
 • Oliver Sheppard
Georg Heym's "Demons of the Cities"
Poem No. 14/278 | "The mother holds the headless thing before her"
 • Oliver Sheppard
Van Gogh's Role in Founding German Expressionist Poetry
The Painter's Letters to His Brother Theo Sketch Out the Foundations of the German Expressionist Movement
 • Oliver Sheppard
VAMPYR by Carl Th. Dreyer (1932)
The German Expressionist film that isn't
 • Oliver Sheppard
Maria Orska, Notorious Vamp of Expressionist Berlin
An Infamous Actress in 1920s Germany, Orska is All But Forgotten Today
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The Perils of AI Poetry + the AI Takeover of Literature and Publishing
Give Me a Moment While I Vent
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Twilight of Humanity: German Expressionist Poetry in English
Twilight of Humanity: German Expressionist Poetry in English
Twilight of Humanity—a journey through the poetry of German Expressionism in English, named for 1919's monumental Menschheitsdämmerung anthology of the movement's greatest poets. Besides poetry, we post & discuss Expressionist cinema & art, Weimar, &c.
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