Abstract
Else Lasker-Schüler was the leading woman poet of the Expressionist movement and a key member of a network of poets and artists centred on Berlin. Her charismatic persona is reflected in a deeply personal mythology, and people are an inspiring force in her work. The poems collected in ?Die gesammelten Gedichte' (1917) address and commemorate family members such as her beloved mother, and friends including Georg Trakl, George Grosz, Gottfried Benn and Franz Marc. Her love poetry expresses intense eroticism, while other poems poignantly evoke the loss of loved ones, and more religiously oriented poems open out into an affirmation of love for all humankind. Lasker-Schüler's evocative imagery is grounded in a poetics of the heart that gives the imagination full reign in exploring human passions.
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