In Hora Mortis / Under the Iron of the Moon: PoemsInternationally acclaimed Austrian novelist, playwright, and memoirist Thomas Bernhard (1931 1989) has been compared to Kafka and Beckett, and critics have ranked his novels among the masterpieces of the twentieth century. But in fact he began his career in the 1950s as a poet, publishing three books of well received verse before turning to fiction. In Hora Mortis Under the Iron of the Moon is the first book of his expressionist like poetry to be