CHICAGO REVIEW

presents

A BILIN­GUAL READING

with

CHRIS­T­IAN HAWKEY

ULJANA WOLF

& MONIKA RINCK

to celebrate

ISSUE 55:1: SEVEN POETS FROM BERLIN

on

THURS­DAY, JAN­U­ARY 28th @ 6PM

at the

GOETHE-​INSTITUT CHICAGO

(150 N. MICHI­GAN AVE)

as well as an

ENCORE READING

on

SAT­UR­DAY, JAN­U­ARY 30th @ 7PM

at

MYOPIC BOOKS

(1564 N. Mil­wau­kee Ave.)

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CHICAGO REVIEW is pleased to announce the pub­li­ca­tion of issue 55:1: SEVEN POETS FROM BERLIN, edited and intro­duced by Chris­t­ian Hawkey.

Fea­tur­ing:

POEMS by Daniel Falb, Monika Rinck, Hen­drik Jack­son, Uljana Wolf, Stef­fen Popp, Sabine Scho, and Ron Winkler

&

TRANS­LA­TIONS by Chris­t­ian Hawkey, Nicholas Grindell, Nicholas Perrin, Cather­ine Hales, Susan Bernof­sky, J.D. Schnei­der and Andrea Scott

as well as:

FIC­TION by Jorge Edwards and Deb Olin Unferth

an INTER­VIEW with Jorge Edwards

ESSAYS by Jef­frey Yang and J.H. Prynne

plus REVIEWS and NOTES!

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(our cover is cour­tesy of Andreas Töpfer)

Speaking of good taste, this guy would like some help inter­pret­ing a poem.

Just thought I’d quote a little Louis Zukof­sky today, because I have a mis­guided inter­est in lit­er­a­ture, music, art, etc.

With my weak eyes
I did not see
assumed a bit
of infi­nite myself
arro­gat­ing hypocrisy
to no heart
but stupidity

O it was
better better
than equat­ing favors
a few to my bal­ance
years later
charged as
can­tan­ker­ous
in their senile scroung­ing
get­ting on