Poetry. "All first person pronouns have a shared pulse. Here, Rilke's original poems are being translated by Goldstein (and the epistolary Martians) a la Spicer's After Lorca. The author is soaking German for its English. By sound. Did he say what I thought he said? Spider? Milky? A homage to both Spicer and Rilke, this sequence of skewed echoes is inter-cut by angry and comical dispatches. The playful snarl of Language itself"--Phil Hall.
Author City: Toronto, ON CAN
Toronto writer Mark Goldstein has suffered no visible education. An avid small presser, he issues limited editions under the Beautiful Outlaw imprint. AFTER RILKE, his first collection, was published in the summer of 2008. TRACELANGUAGE is his second book.
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John Herbert Cunningham in Prairie Fire