Reading this collection makes one aware that being human is also a religious experience. The clash of languages throughout this collection opens doors to foreign rooms full of incense which are, in truth, situated in our own backyards. Villanueva conjures the heat of a thousand candles that envelope; billows of what seem to be unknown Read More
This collection of poems and writings provides a little window into the mind of a thinker obsessed with writing. Amos Weisz, bilingual European – he worked, lived and thought in English and German – was a philosopher and mathematician by education. He wrote poetry, prose and drama, translated academic prose and the German culture in Read More
I have often asked myself and never found an answer Whence kindness and gentleness come, I don’t know it to this day, and now must go myself. (“People Met”) Before the carnage of Benn’s early poetry, Michael Hofmann offers an insightful, engaging, funny and enjoyable introduction into Gottfried Benn’s life and extraordinary career. He describes Read More
