Oppressive Light: Selected Poems

Author: Robert Walser

Translator: Daniele Pantano

Publisher: Black Lawrence Press (2012)

Oppressive Light: Selected Poems represents the first collection of Robert Walser's poetry in English translation and an opportunity to experience Walser as he saw himself at the beginning and at the end of his literary career—as a poet. The collection also includes notes on dates of composition, draft versions the printed poems represent, which volume of the Werkausgabe the poems were first published in, and brief biographical information on characters and locations that appear in the poems and may not be known to readers.