Einstein Fledermaus

by Marc Vincenz

Marc Vincenz is a prize-winning Anglo-Swiss-American poet, a fiction writer, translator, editor, publisher, designer, multi-genre artist and musician currently based in Massachusetts. He has published fourteen books of his poetry. According to the critically acclaimed poet Bruce Bond, "this richly layered collection of poems, "Einstein’s Fledermaus," explores the deep, unfinished yearning for affinity, theory, and knowledge, and all that conspires to dismantle it."

42 pages, Paperback

Published May 7, 2021

About the author

Marc Vincenz was born in Hong Kong to Swiss-British parents during the height of the Cultural Revolution. He divides his time between Reykjavik, Zurich and Boston where he works as a journalist, poet, writer, translator, editor and book designer. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Washington Square Review, Fourteen Hills, Canary, Manhattan Review, Plume, Saint Petersburg Review, Crab Creek Review, The Bitter Oleander, Exquisite Corpse, Guernica, The Potomac, Spillway Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, MiPOesias and Inertia. Recent books include: The Propaganda Factory, or Speaking of Trees; Pull of the Gravitons; Gods of a Ransacked Century; Mao’s Mole; Behind the Wall at the Sugar Works; Additional Breathing Exercises; Beautiful Rush and the forthcoming This Wasted Land (with Tom Bradley). His recent translations include, Kissing Nests by Werner Lutz , Nightshift / An Area of Shadows by Erika Burkart and Ernst Halter, Out of the Dust by Klaus Merz and Grass Grows Inward by Andreas Neeser

Reviews

[John Allen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Marc Vincenz's "Einstein's Fledermaus" is a very concentrated, condensed pursuit of language through the uncanny. Parabolic and highly charged with internal meaning, this is not the surrealism of spontaneous unconsious imagery but a lucid and focused poetic statement which uses the former for the delivery.

"Towards the Holy Land" and "The Undertaker" were my favorites.