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Posts by: Christian Detisch

An Open Letter in Lieu of a Review: on Still Life by Jay Hopler

By Christian Detisch

July 13th, 2022

. . . there’s some vital aspect to a person even the approach of oblivion can’t erase.

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Tags: Christian Detisch, Jay Hopler, poetry, Rumpus Reviews, Still Life

Our Recognizable, Difficult, Earthly Kingdom: Such Color by Tracy K. Smith

By Christian Detisch

December 3rd, 2021

Composition here becomes a process of discernment rather than pure creation.

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Tags: book review, Christian Detisch, Civil War, david bowie, duende, Elegies, elegy, erasure, erasure poems, erasure poetry, Felon, graywolf, graywolf press, Layli Long Soldier, Life on Mars, Music, poems, poetry, poetry review, racial inequality, Racism, Reginald Dwayne Betts, religion, review, slavery, Such Color, The Body's Question, Tracy K Smith, Wade in the Water, Whereas

Christian Detisch is a writer whose poems, essays, and criticism have appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, Image, Blackbird, West Branch, and elsewhere. He received his MFA in poetry from Virginia Commonwealth University and his M.Div from the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale Divinity School.

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