num_pages: 120
description: Although the Expressionists are renowned for their dynamic and emotionally challenging imagery, their literary masterpieces remain a well-kept secret. Here, for the first time, is an anthology of some of the very best poems from the Expressionist era, by radical artists and writers such as Wassily Kandinsky, Egon Schiele, Georg Trakl, and Else Lasker-Schüler.
language: English
title: Music While Drowning: German Expressionist Poems
titlecomplete: Music While Drowning: German Expressionist Poems
genres: Art, Poetry, German Literature
ratings_count: 49
publisher: Tate