van de aanvankelijke angsten en depressies tot de jubelende aanvaarding (‘hiersein ist herrlich’)
is intrigerende en indringende poëzie
gelaagde stijl toont Kang dat vergankelijkheid niet één moment is
as the ravages of our human-centric worldview upon plants and animals mount toward irreversibility
Maxime Garcia Diaz
The Blackbird Wislawa Szymborska van de aanvankelijke angsten enChristian Schlegel Across five talk poems, composed mostly in public and revised in tranquility, Christian Schlegel's The Blackbird takes up (and puts down somewhere else): the Catskills, Fancy Lad Skateboarding, Robert Musil, Lee Lozano, UFOs, Toni Erdmann, childhood, short stories, and friendship. In "thought refracted through speech and formed into lines," The Blackbird addresses us in every sense of the present tense, making private enthusiasms