"Heimat" is an ambitious book-length poetic sequence, by turns funny and witty, tragic and profound, lyrical and narrative. Taking its cues from sources ranging from the great Modernist long poems of the twentieth century to the Asterix comic books and the city of New York itself, "Heimat" explores what it means to belong to the American nation. At the heart of the poem is the journey of Ernst Lehr, the author's German-speaking great-grandfather who abandoned his family and the Lutheran ministry during World War I to fight for the American Army. He never returned. The book is structured by an...
"Heimat" is an ambitious book-length poetic sequence, by turns funny and witty, tragic and profound, lyrical and narrative. Taking its cues from sourc...
An anthology of the best poems published by the literary journal, The Raintown Review, between 2009 and 2015. Includes poems by Erica Dawson, Ernest Hilbert, Tim Murphy, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and Deborah Tyler-Bennett.
An anthology of the best poems published by the literary journal, The Raintown Review, between 2009 and 2015. Includes poems by Erica Dawson, Ernest H...
