Books by Rauan Klassnik
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review 1: Rauan Klassnik's prose poems in Holy Land are a treat--each one a surreal journey of its own. I'll paste one of my favorites here:I’m on a cloud floating by and I’ve gone mad but madness flows away in a tall shining work of Art and I’m standing in front of a fountain and the worl...
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review 1: A reviewer on HTMLGiant included Rauan Klassnik on a list of poets that, “made [her/him] care about poetry in 2013,” describing Rauan’s poetry as “tiny, dimly lit room[s] with the air running out…Although the words feel familiar they are always unraveling in new ways—each poem fe...
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review 1: Nicely done R. These poems continue to embody the complex love I found in your Holy Land poems. Anyone who can’t read past the dirty words and shocking acts has probably never given a close read to the Sufi poets. I’d say you’re as akin to Hafiz as you are to J. G. Ballard. There...