{"id":25465,"date":"2023-03-05T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-05T06:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/?p=25465"},"modified":"2025-09-10T12:25:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:25:40","slug":"poet-erik-lindner-words-are-the-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/poet-erik-lindner-words-are-the-worst\/","title":{"rendered":"Poet Erik Lindner, <em>Words Are the Worst<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Erik Lindner \/ 3 Poems<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_25479\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25479\" style=\"width: 375px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vehiculepress.com\/q.php?EAN=9781550655834\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-25479 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/words-are-the-worst-erik-lindner-the-markaz-review.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/words-are-the-worst-erik-lindner-the-markaz-review.jpg 375w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldmarkaz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/words-are-the-worst-erik-lindner-the-markaz-review-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Words are the Worst<\/em> is available from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vehiculepress.com\/q.php?EAN=9781550655834\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vehicle Press<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Author of the recent collection <em>Words are the Worst<\/em>, translated from the Dutch, <a href=\"https:\/\/eriklindner.nl\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Erik Linder<\/a> lives in Amsterdam. Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry, <em>Words are the Worst<\/em> has received some interesting reviews:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lindner&#8217;s poetry cuts into the quotidian mise en sc\u00e8ne to lay bare illuminating juxtapositions across time and space. What is left on the screen of the page opens up another way of seeing, rife with amazement and curiosity.&#8221; \u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/mtlreviewofbooks.ca\/reviews\/poetry-roundup-fall-2021-virginia-konchan-h-nigel-thomas-jenny-boychuck-erik-lindner-carol-anne-boisvert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Montreal Review of Books<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith a cinematic eye, Erik Lindner tracks the traces of human activity. The poems in\u00a0<em>Words are the Worst<\/em>, awash in reflections and flotsam, illuminated by sea air, tease out meaning and motive from the everyday. Fleeting pleasures \u2013 a picnic, juicy apple, train ride, stride into the surf \u2013 dissolve in a moment. We are left with a plaintive searching song in which the simplest actions become enigmatic.\u201d \u2014Kateri Lanthier<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ose-vimeo ose-uid-1616af5efb485c7d49f1596a36ac41af ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:550px; max-height:550px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Vimeo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" title=\"Erik Lindner for Poetry Markaz in The Markaz Review, March 2023\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/804817157?dnt=0&amp;app_id=122963&title=0&color=00ADEF&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=0&loop=0&autopause=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>Tokens of Identity<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">1<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">What counts is that things should somehow make sense,<br \/>\nthe chance to be part of a whole, belong to a group,<br \/>\na collective. People getting changed between<br \/>\nthe low hedges by the barbed<br \/>\nwire round the dunes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">Playing cards drop on an outspread towel, the picnic<br \/>\nunder cloth in a wicker basket, sand heaped<br \/>\nover a bottle from the distillery where<br \/>\none of us has worked that day. Like<br \/>\neveryone else we run to the sea<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">and back again, tap out the sand from our shoes on the path,<br \/>\nembrace what was left unsaid in every conversation<br \/>\nwhen we say goodbye and feel inconsolable<br \/>\nin a streetcar as the driver announces<br \/>\nthe stops to his only passenger.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><strong>Untitled<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">The garden lies between the road and the window<br \/>\nI saw through my dream by standing up in it<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">and still you shrug your shoulders<br \/>\namidst what\u2019s embracing you<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\" style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">that cartwheel and that brick path<br \/>\nthe chair which just stays put<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 80px;\"><em>how quietly streetcar seven to hoboken<\/em><br \/>\n<em>circles round the tables outside 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