new website alert

Hi! Before you read on – I’ve got a new website … and it includes info on my second book RYMAN, out 10/4/22 with Ricochet Editions!

https://linktr.ee/chrisschlegel

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Honest James (Brooklyn: The Song Cave, 2015)

Available at SPD and AbeBooks

“One of the strangest books of poetry to come along in some time, Christian Schlegel’s Honest James seems to draw inspiration from the back corridors and anterooms of poetry. One senses echoes of Kipling, Browning, Landor, even Robert W. Service, and other late 19th-century hot shots, but it doesn’t seem to be a question of Schlegel taking cues from other poets, rather his magpie-like attraction to bits of history imbedded in forgotten texts.” —John Ashbery

“Of equal parts wariness and devotion, music and restraint, wit and loss, these moving poems mark Christian Schlegel as a poet with an astonishing feel for the English language, a living relationship with its literatures, and the gift of a precise wisdom.” —Susan Wheeler

“Schlegel uses an intentionally antiquated diction and style, and the rigor of this choice, over the course of that book, becomes almost a conceptual device.” —Rob Crawford in the Boston Review

Discussed in Diagram and at the Colorado Review online

Short essay on two poems, at the Poetry Society of America

Short essay on composing Honest James, at LitHub, “30 Must-Read Poetry Debuts from 2015”