Blogs
September 3rd, 2010
on Juvenilia, poems by Ken Chen (Yale University Press)
The first-person in American poetry has become a marked man, a “person of interest” in the criminal sense. All he ever wanted in his youth was to be a metaphor for something. We tried to keep him sober and productive. But in his epiphanic moments, we could no longer ignore his untrustworthiness. Sensing a shift in our toleration, he toned things down even to flatness.
September 1st, 2010
on One More Story, short stories by Ingo Schulze (Knopf)
Ingo Schulze was born in Dresden in 1962. Now living in Berlin, he is often described as the writer most representative of the united Germany. Two years ago he visited Dresden, located in what used to be the GDR. “It was a very sobering experience,” he said in a recent interview. “The whole Disneyfication of the city.
