Originally written in German by one of Austria's most important experimental poets, From Embracing the Sparrow-Wall, or 1 Schumann-madness, is a "revisionary incantation" of the lives of 19th-Century composer Robert Schumann and pianist Clara Schumann, alongside that of the poet herself, Friederike Mayr cker, and her "heart-and-hand companion," Ernst Jandl. Initially conceived as a musical performance and published as a textual record of a radio play,...