Peter Handke

No review can possibly convey the richness of Filip’s meditation on his brother’s two books, or Handke’s magical and musical way with images. … [Repetition] is one of the most dignified and moving evocations I have ever read of what it means to be alive, to walk upon this earth.

Peter Handke’s long poem Gedicht an die Dauer came out in 1986 and has only just been brought out in English, as To Duration, in a fine translation by Scott Abbott… Handke is one of the shining literary lights of our time and it says a great deal about the insularity of our culture that this profound and beautiful poem has had to wait almost thirty years to appear in English.