From the spook of ‘Spokes’ and the parabolic philosophical chiaroscuro of ‘White Spaces’ to the gnomic sighs of what’s in between, Paul Auster’s poems shimmer at the edges with audacious grace and uncanny soulfulness.—Charles Bernstein
Paul AusterPaul Auster (1947– ) is a novelist, essayist, translator, and poet whose complex mystery novels are often concerned with the search for identity and personal meaning. A graduate of Columbia University, he currently resides in Brooklyn, NY.
Translated from the French by Paul Auster
Translated from the French by Paul Auster
From the spook of ‘Spokes’ and the parabolic philosophical chiaroscuro of ‘White Spaces’ to the gnomic sighs of what’s in between, Paul Auster’s poems shimmer at the edges with audacious grace and uncanny soulfulness.—Charles Bernstein
Anyone interested in the origins of Paul Auster’s art, its ground, will find these intense early sequences, these liminal austerities, of great interest. Auster’s is a poetry of extreme lyric condensation.—Michael Palmer
A genuine American original.—The Boston Globe
A genuine American original.—The Boston Globe
Paul Auster is definitely a genius.—Haruki Murakami
The arresting stories in this slim collection by Auster … go a long way toward answering the perennial question “Why write?”—Ana Luísa Amaral, Publishers Weekly
