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"Sounds, Soft and Drunk": Georg Trakl's Poetics of Intoxication
Academic journal article from AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association, No. 107
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Few writers of any epoch or nationality surpass the Austrian Expressionist poet Georg Trakl in the scope and intensity of his drug consumption. "A heavy drinker and drug eater" is the characterization offered by Trakl's close friend, mentor and publisher Ludwig von Ficker, who was by no means given to cheap sensationalizing, least of all in matters concerning his brilliant protégé.1 There are indications that Trakl's two drugs of preference were alcohol and Veronal (Weichselbaum 48), but he is known to have taken chloroform, ether, morphine, opium and cocaine as well, and it has been suggested that he was also familiar with curare and even mescaline.2 The poet's relentless quest for …
