Robert Hahn is a poet, essayist, and translator. He lives in Boston.
Book Reviews
July/Aug 2017
Nothing There: The Late Poetry of John Koethe
The Swimmer by John Koethe. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016. 96 pp. $23.00. John Koethe’s tenth book, The Swimmer, is the sum of its author’s contradictions. Koethe’s view of […]
Nonfiction
Winter 2012
Arias in the Prison of Opinion: Coetzee’s Late Novels
The appearance of Disgrace (1999) solidified the already ample prestige of J. M. Coetzee, garnering him a rare second Booker Prize and providing the final piece of evidence for his […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 2004
‘Drawing by Michelangelo, Color by Titian’: Of Originality, Influence, and the Poetry of John Koethe
1. What is originality? As heirs to the tradition of romantic individualism, we may think of originality in art as the emergence of a style or voice so distinct from […]