Three Collections in Two Volumes by August Kleinzahler
Be stunned by Kleinzahler’s poetry in the far ports of your body.
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Posts Tagged: The London Review of Books
The Problem with Poems
The fatal problem with poetry: poems. At the London Review of Books, Ben Lerner discusses the difficulty of memorizing Marianne Moore’s “Poetry” and how every failed poem is actually what makes poetry successful as a whole.
...moreAll Aboard
My aspiration to spend time at sea as requisite literary training died long ago, as a teenager, on a white-knuckled ferry ride to Elba during a torrential rainstorm. Not only was I seasick, I saw the population on board as hostile competitors to salvation. As the ferry lurched and rolled, we gave one another dirty […]
...moreFor Real
Time and again we hear about a new desire for the real, about a realism which is realistic set against an avant-garde which isn’t, and so on. In his new essay over at the London Review of Books, Tom McCarthy looks at the new meanings of terms such as “the real”, “realism” and “reality” within […]
...moreWalking Along Brighton Beach
As soon as Ashley came down the stairs from the subway, which rattles across a bridge over Brighton Beach Avenue, it all came tumbling out: who he really was and that he was married. Every time a train passed overhead it drowned out what he was saying and he would have start over. Short, but […]
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