Böcker av Augustus Young

Franz Xaver Kappus, an aspiring poet, wrote to Rainer Maria Rilke for advice in 1903, but could not have expected such a voluminous response from the acclaimed German writer. Through this correspondence, Augustus Young weaves a patchwork portrait of the enigmatic poet and his intimates.

The Credit is an opera in verse, without music. The first Act recites the story of Hugo, a successful product of Jesuit education. Act two begins with the reported death of Hugo in Venice. Act three: the action moves onto the hill-town of Cioccolato where Hugo owns a bean factory.

Includes a long poem by the author, "The Long Habit of Living", together with his loose reworking of Mayakovsky's classic long poem "Cloud in Pants", and some loose translations of Brecht, and a number of poems 'in the manner of Brecht'.