shigekuni.

This is Shigekuni’s place and he is a scatterbrained poet, whose accent betrays his teutonic origins. That’s right, he’s half-German, half Russian and writes predominantly in English. He studied literature but they wouldn’t even give him a T-Shirt for it, nor has the world decided to award his self-sacrifice to culture with a job. He’s now writing a phd on American poetry (on Lowell, Bishop and Berryman) and invests his spare unemployed time in reading even more than before. He will read anything provided it has a nice cover and is not written by Paolo Coelho or Terry Goodkind. He likes poetry mostly because it appeals to his short attention span. He also watches an insane amount of TV.

He reads mostly at night which explains the lack of things he remembers about the book. Good examples of this can be found on this blog, which contains reviews, god-awful poems and quotes by smart people to make him look good. He is the irate troll that lives under your shelf and makes it rumble when you buy a bad book and put it there. He writes poems whenever the fancy takes him, preferably in public, in a starbuck’s, on a laptop. He also likes and reads a lot of philosophy but he’s insufferable, really, about it, so don’t ask him. You could ask him why he never wears pants when he goes out but be sure you want to know the answer. He listens to music, because he has no talent in making it, and paints pretty pictures although he doesn’t have any talent for it.

He loves books, really. He wants you to read more Arno Schmitt and Thomas Bernhard.

You can contact him at shigekuniblog (at) rocketmail (dot) com

His blog sports a long list of categories (see drop down box on the left), feel free to browse. Below are a few of the most important and popular categories:

My reviews. The fastest growing category.

English Poems

German poems

Essays (therein a few reviews, a few undergraduate papers and essays on TV shows and smaller rants)