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What we call "life" is endlessly in flux, instantly shifting from the future to the past with our bodies serving as the medium of this transition. By the time we have moved, sensed, or observed an event, that experience has already entered the past. Moreover, we cannot avoid living in the past because our consciousness-whether waking or dreaming-is comprised solely of memories. And while these memories are mere shadows projected on the walls of our imagination, they are the most substantial proof that we have weathered life's pageant of glory and trauma. In this new collection of poems, I return to some of the encounters and places-at home and abroad-whose impact on me has been long-lasting. This includes translations-real and imagined-of poems from German, Ancient Greek, and Hawaiian that are as much a part of me as my lived experiences.



About the Author :
Gregory Maertz is a professor of English at St. John's University in New York City. Educated at Northwestern, Harvard, and the University of Heidelberg, he developed expertise in British and German nineteenth-century poetry, philosophy, and prose fiction as well as German visual art from the 1920s through the 1950s. An immersion in the German language and culture has been central to Maertz's academic career, resulting in the publication of several books and many articles. Maertz has also lent a hand in organizing major international art exhibitions around the controversial theme of cultural production in Nazi Germany. The decision to begin translating classic German poems-by Goethe, Rilke, Hofmannsthal, and others-was inspired by a desire to return to the literary enthusiasms of his youth. The inclusion here of fictional or pseudotranslations from imagined German, Ancient Greek, and Hawaiian sources represents an experiment in literary and historical speculation. Maertz's new collection was written at his home in Griggstown, New Jersey following visits to Honolulu, the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Cambridge, Massachusetts, the village of Obereggen in the South Tyrol, and Munich. Others were inspired by his travels throughout Europe and a long residency in Heidelberg during his student days. Formally in dialogue with traditional poetic genres like the sonnet and the ballad, Maertz's new poems adapt these forms to commemorate deeply personal experiences and feelings. Maertz's first book of poems, The Charisma of Animals (2023), may be purchased from Finishinglinepress.com and his other books are available on his Amazon author's page.


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  • ISBN-13: 9798899903366
  • Publisher: Finishing Line Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Finishing Line Press
  • ISBN-10: 8899903360
  • Publisher Date: 09 Jan 2026


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