Morning roundup …

… Courtesy of Dave Lull.


… Bruce Charlton's Miscellany: Subversion and blog comments.

… Poetry as Liturgy: Review of Sounding The Seasons: Seventy Sonnets for the Christian Year, by Malcolm Guite.

… True Detective' could be the next 'Breaking Bad'.

… The "Soul Is a Stranger in This World" — Loneliness in the poetry of Franz Wright.

Block after block text can be off-putting. When I first received the volume from the publisher, I skimmed it and put it to the side. I was wrong to do so.Kindertotenwald is a pleasure. The poems themselves are some of Wright's most varied in terms of subject matter. We have folk tales, vignettes of Nietzsche, Verlaine, Basho, Saint Teresa, Kierkegaard, and other unidentified voices.

… And the winner is: The German non-word of the year: Sozialtourismus.

… Elberry reads Alan Furst: "for they were no longer to be had”.