Excerpt from Kubin’s The Other Side
Among my childhood friends was a strange boy whose story is well worth snatching from oblivion. I have done my best to describe at least a part of the strange events tied to the name of Claus Patera as truthfully as possible, since it is the responsibility of an eyewitness to do so. . . .
Excerpt from Rilke’s Offerings to the Lares
Several years ago, a friend of mine, Petra Watzke, and I translated a handful of poems from one of Rainer Maria Rilke’s earliest collections of poetry, Larenopfer. . . . I wanted to offer those translations to you here.