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“... Why the past tense?Why the new, somewhat morose, expression in the photographs,the half-smile fallen from the half-wince,as though unplugged or unplupped?Why of a sudden so much attention from the Far East  – it’s because the world turns into the sunand so much less in English than in German  – it’s the availability, even in common speech ...”

“... book, Tremor (1985), I have had a happily unexamined admiration for the work of the Polish poet Adam Zagajewski. Hence, perhaps, the inordinate difficulty – even for me, with my sluggishness and resistances – in approaching it now in a spirit of . . . let’s call it serious holism. And yet it was something I very much wanted to do, and something ...”