Comments on: On Gene Tanta’s “Critical Introduction to Unusual Woods.”

By: Brooks Lampe | A Ghost (Sonnet) in Gene Tanta's "Unusual Woods" | the the poetry blog

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:49:46 +0000

[...] entry is part of a series, On Unusual Woods by Gene Tanta» Last time, we saw that in his critical introduction to Unusual Woods, Gene Tanta wants us to approach his [...]

By: Brian Chappell

Brian Chappell — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:01:00 +0000

I’m fascinated by the ways ESL writers adopt and play with American idiom. Novelists Gary Shteyngart (Russian) and Jonathan Safran Foer pay particular attention to this. Foer, whose first language is English, is an interesting case. He had to step outside of his comfort with American idiom to create Alex Perchov, a Ukranian, who speaks an overtly idiomatic American English, as a second language. It makes for great comedy, in the cases of both of these writers, but it, as we see in this review, opens the door for discussions of linguistic identity.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 03:56:00 +0000

brooks, this review is fantastic. can’t wait to read the 2nd part (and gene’s book when it arrives in the mail).