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Category Archives: poetry

Lord of the Butterflies

Such a beautiful collection of poems about (queer) life in America.

Posted byChristoph26/04/202323/04/2023Posted inpoetryTags: andrea gibson, button poetry, life, poetry, queer, usa

Blutbuch

“Maybe this is why so many of us write ‘autofiction’: because we are still stories, because we aren’t real bodies yet.”

Posted byChristoph18/04/202316/04/2023Posted inpoetryTags: books, Deutscher Buchpreis, journal, kim de l'horizon, Lit, queer literature

Or Does It Explode?

On Lanston Hughes’ “Harlem”

Posted byChristoph01/02/2023Posted inpoetryTags: American Dream, American literature, black history month, langston hughes, Lit, poetry, riot, usa, violence

Etel Adnan: Writing Is Another Form of Drawing

On the Lenbachhaus exhibition and her books.

Posted byChristoph28/01/2023Posted inpoetryTags: art, California, Etel Adnan, Lebanon, Lit, München, poetry, quote, writing

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

“All stories are recycled and all stories are unfair.”

Posted byChristoph15/01/2023Posted inpoetryTags: booker prize, novel, reading journal, Shehan Karunatilaka, Sri Lanka, The Sellout, the seven moons of maali almeida

Books I’ve Read July-September 2022

It’s been a long year, and there is still a lot of year waiting to deteriorate. I’m trying get back into the habit of not only reading, but of reading and writing about it.

Posted byChristoph01/10/2022Posted inpoetry, pop cultureTags: books, life, litertature, writing

A Woman’s Life by a Guy

Guy de Maupassant’s novel points at the privilege to just live and the nothingness the nobility makes of it.

Posted byChristoph09/01/202209/01/2022Posted inpoetryTags: 19th century, france, naturalism, novel, quote, review

Call Us What We Carry: Amanda Gorman’s First Poetry Collection

The best passages are when she does not attempt to be presidential, but is instead “just” an immensely talented, very young poet.

Posted byChristoph06/01/2022Posted inpoetryTags: Amanda Gorman, inauguration, Joe Biden, Lit, poetry, quote, review, usa

Ada in Time and Space

4 versions of a woman as anchor in time and space in Sharon Dodoa Otoo’s Adas Raum

Posted byChristoph28/03/2021Posted inpoetryTags: Ada, history, kurt vonnegut, Lit, narrative, nonlinear, novel, prose, review, Sharon Dodua Otoo

Poetry As A Form of Resistance

I spent World Poetry Day this year with two excellent, German-language collections: Grenzwerte by Max Czollek and Mein Name ist Ausländer by Semra Ertan.

Posted byChristoph21/03/2021Posted inpoetry, PoliticsTags: books, Max Czollek, poetry, review, Semra Ertan

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