In 1999 Chicago landlorded two conf...

In 1999 Chicago landlorded two conferences devoted to contemporary rhyme from Central and Eastern Europe The first, in April, was organized through the Goethe-Institut and ALTA in conjunction with a special issue of poesy on contemporary German-language verse. It featured readings by the agency of two German poets and an Austrian: Gerhard Falkner, whose "intense, unruffled violent relation to language" (Rosmarie Waldrop, Exact Change Yearbook 1995) deportment ed a lyric tradition that undivided might trace from Heine by the and of Morgenstern and Benn into the diiftige Zeit of the Reagan-Kohl '80s; Joachim