"...we must be immensely grateful that Peter Filkins has now given us the fullest and the best translations we have in English of this magnificent poet."– Charles Simic "Ingeborg Bachmann is regarded as one of the half-dozen most important German-language writers of the second half of the twentieth century. And in the acclaim for her passionate and varied body of work, a supreme place is usually granted to her poetry. English-language readers still don't have enough Bachmann to read, but this volume of eloquent translations (and an excellent essay and notes by the translator) is the best of all possible beginnings."– Susan Sontag