Mar 3, 2015
I want to begin by stating this is not a review of a Model City (Shearsman, 2015), a book of poems that I recently read. The author is Donna Stonecipher, an American poet and translator who has lived in Berlin for some years. I am unable to review a book by this poet because, in 2008, I selected her manuscript, The Cosmopolitan, to be published by Coffee House Press in the National Poetry Series. I had not met Stonecipher before I chose her manuscript and I was not familiar with her work. She was a stranger to me. Since then, we have met maybe three or four times, always in Berlin, where my wife, Eve Aschheim, exhibits her paintings and drawings. In 2012, I published Stonecipher’s translation of Ascentby Ludwig Hohl.
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