time goes forward, time this. So do fighting, hungering, singing, dying. All! Soldier and officer! Day and night! Sorrowing and bleeding! And a hand shines over me! I swim through everything. Am everything! I!". A blood-stained copy of the 1904 German translation of the book "In Tune with the Infinite" (In Harmonie mit dem Unendlichen), by American New Thought philosopher Ralph Waldo Trine, was found in Stramm's pocket after his death. Stramm's enthusiasm for Trine is believed to have been a legacy of the time he spent living in the United States. August Stramm's body was buried with full military honors at Gorodets, in the Kobryn District of modern Belarus, on October 2, 1915. Captain Stramm and his son Helmuth both lie buried at the Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf, near the Berlin suburb of the same name. Literary career Jeremy Adler has written that August Stramm was, "along with Guillaume Apollinaire, among the most innovative poets of the First World War." Stramm, Adler writes, treated, "language like a physical material" and, "honed down syntax to its bare essentials." Citing Stramm's fondness for "fashioning new words out of old," Adler has also written that, "what James Joyce did on a grand scale for English, Stramm achieved more modestly for German." Between April 1914 and the outbreak of the Great War, Stramm wrote the poems contained in his first collection, which was titled Du. Liebesgedichte (You. Love Poems"). According to Jeremy Adler, the poems contained in Du explore, "the changing and often tense relationship between the poet's self Ich (I), and an often undefined Du (You). This Du, more than a single woman, is extended to include womankind, humanity, and God. This the 'love' recorded ranges from debased sexuality in Freudenhaus ("House of Pleasures") to the love of God in Allmacht ("Almighty"). Love is seen as essentially ambiguous; or, rather, it cannot be separated from, and always involves it own opposite, strife. Appropriately, the collection begins with a poem that announces this duality: Liebeskampf (Love-Fight")." Du. Liebesgedichte was published whilst Stramm was at the front in 1915. Stramm's war poetry was published in Der Sturm during his lifetime and later appeared in the collection Tropfenblut ("Dripping Blood"), which was posthumously published in 1919. According to Patrick Bridgwater, "Stramm's war poems are concerned with particulars, with the brute realities, the basic experiences of life at the front." According to Jeremy Adler, "Like no others in