Sympathetic Magic from the Black Forest

Christian Wessels is a poet and critic. His poems have appeared in The Yale Review, The Cortland Review, and Harvard Review Online, among other journals. His criticism has appeared in Literary Imagination, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Cleveland Review of Books. He received his PhD in English from the University of Rochester, where he currently teaches, and his MFA from Boston University. He splits his time between New York and the Black Forest, Germany.