"Berlin is Green" and "Done with Walls" are both English-language slogans from Berlin municipal advertising. I have been based in Berlin since 2013 but I still cannot experience the city without reference to its twentieth-century history. This poem was written before my older daughter became a teenager and demanded her own room.
Eugene Ostashevsky on "Feeling Sonnet 22" |
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"Will Alexander's Epics of the Surreal"
"There is, in these poems, little difference between the realm of history and the realm of the imagination. Alexander knows only one mode of transport. He is, per Weinberger, 'an ecstatic surrealist on imaginal hyperdrive.' Despite the hermetic design of Alexander's surrealist epics, their reputation has grown steadily in recent decades."
via THE NATION |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Brian Henry on Tomaž Šalamun's "Sutra"
"Though Šalamun would leave the interview format behind, he continued to ask many questions in his work, sometimes building poems upon a series of questions, as in the poem featured here. Although the title, 'Sutra,' implies the imparting of wisdom or knowledge, Šalamun was more interested in the interplay between the questions and answers than in satisfying the expectations of a conventional sutra." |
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