Franz Wright

Have I been left here?

by Keith Taylor

posted 9/22/2011

When I knew I would write about Franz Wright's new collection of prose poems, Kindertotenwald, I wrote to my German friend Thilo von Debschitz, whose English is decidedly better than my German, to ask him how he understood the title. Kinder was easy--the plural of children. But the rest of the compound was harder. Thilo wrote: "Totenwald is the Wald

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