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Wright talks about its universality across culture and time, but also its recentresurgenceamong readers.

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I think it responds to some profound and soul-shaping human need.

What results are dazzling poems of connectivity and multiplicity because no one thing takes us out of ourselves.

Since this is Krasznahorkai, doom cant be far off.

Casting Deep Shade: An Amble, by C.D. Wright (Copper Canyon Press)

Sight Lines, by Arthur Sze (Copper Canyon Press)

Still Nowhere in an Empty Vastness, by Roberto Tejada (Noemi Press)

Song for the Unraveling of the World, by Brian Evenson (Coffee House Press, June 11)

Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming, by László Krasznahorkai, trans. by Ottilie Mulzet (New Directions, September 24)