At the Burning AbyssFranz Fhmanns magnum opus. At the Burning Abyss is a gripping and profoundly personal encounter with the great expressionist poet Georg Trakl. It is a taking stock of two troubled lives, a turbulent century, and the liberating power of poetry. Picking up where his last book, The Jew Car, left off, Fhmann probes his own susceptibility to ideologys seductionsNazism, then socialismand examines their antidote, the goad of Trakls enigmatic verses. He