title: Life at the Far End: Poems considering the unusual
author: Annette Meserve
description: Annette Meserve is a storyteller by nature, a visual artist by habit and by history. A few years ago, she decided to explore a new medium and found that, when she painted with words, she, didnt have to wear throw-away clothes, didnt have to clean brushes, or frame things. No more studios with high ceilings and blank walls, any old corner with enough space for a laptop and a cup of coffee would do. So now she exercises her imagination in her tiny office where she doesnt worry about the words dribbling onto her shirt, and clean-up is as simple as clicking the shut down button. She shares her creative life with many creatures and her artist-husband who still prefers the messier ways.
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  GIFT OF 
  ALLAN D. PA 
  MEMORIAL F 
  
  The present collection of poems, one 
  of the most remarkable to come out of 
  the present war, is Mr. Mehring’s first 
  book to be published in America and his 
  first volume to appear with both German 
  and English text. 
  “Odyssey Out of Midnight,” the first 
  part of "No Road Back,” covering the 
  years from 1937 to the beginning of 1941, 
  was begun when Walter Mehring fore¬ 
  saw the fall of Austria. Believing poetic 
  description inadequate to convey the full 
  horror of the impending catastrophe, 
  Mr. Mehring wrote his first poem as a 
  love letter. In this most individual, most 
  personal, form of expression he sought to 
  convey the full impact of Nazi horror 
  
  upon the individual and through the re¬ 
  action of the individual to describe the 
  collective tragedy of the whole of hu¬ 
  manity. 
  Other “letters” followed. Often, as in 
  the barbe