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5 Trakl'sdrugaddictionandearlydeatharetwosuchindicationsofhowhisbiogra- phy could be read to support such claims. More often, the tendency has been to look to his incestuous relationship with his sister as a sign of his inability to get outside of him- self. For a solid examnation of his relationship with his sister, see McLary.
6 The critical edition of Trakl's letters uses a numbering system. It has become common practice to refer to this letter to his friend Ficker as the 106th.
7 Since a summary of the entire text is impossible here, I offer the following few ci- tations from the opening sections to clarify Heideigger's strategy for reading Trakl as well as his understanding of how his poetry emanates from an unspoken gathering point which might be called the poem of poems: "Jetzt gilt es, denjenigen Ort zu ero? rtern, der das dichtende Sagen Georg Trakls zu seinem Gedicht versammelt, den Ort seines Gedichtes. "
"Jeder grosse Dichter dichtet nur aus einem einzigen Gedicht. [. . . ] Das Gedicht eines Dichters bleibt ungesprochen. [. . . ] Dem Ort des Gedichtes entquillt die Woge, die jeweils das Sagen als ein dichtendes bewegt" (vol. 12, 33-34).
8 Heideggerforgoesanalysisofanyonepoemandattendsinsteadtobitsandpieces of 43 different ones.
9 Brown suggests that the reversals in Trakl's poetry are the result of "gratuitous substitution" and so lead to a meaningless interchangeability, 46. Also see Grimm for how such linguistic devices allow him to feign vertiginous suspension in space, 303-04. I am arguing that Trakl consciously invokes such mechanics as a means to chart a way out of this dialectic.
10 See Kudszus, Poetic Process, for a more extensive account of these mechanics.
11 See Finck for a discussion of Trakl based on this remark by Rilke, 115-25. As Rilke's remark indicates, Trakl elides identification; he appears, to paraphrase Foti, to be already displaced into a pastness incapable of being brought forward (Foti 20).
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