Tiny Kites

Poetry. "From Prague (a city he calls 'Threshold') comes the gnomic verse of the expatriate American poet Lucien Zell. The old alchemists would recognize what Zell is up to: the transformation of base materials (simple words, direct images) into spiritual gold. The result is what he calls 'The extraordinary bliss to be found in the ordinary.' Kafka too would surely understand."--Norman Finkelstein