- Authors
Tomas Unger
Tomas Unger is a poet and teacher. His essays and poems have appeared in The Threepenny Review, The Paris Review, The New York Review of Books, and The Yale Review. He lives in New York.
Praise for Odd Hour
Tomas Unger has the poetic gift of an enchanted vision of time, in all its limitless range, re-animating rather than merely elegiac: bandura music, the parallel flashing interiors of New York subway trains, Brazil in 1910, the moment of a chess piece held above the board, the intensity of tennis and the “immense boredom” of cricket, famous artists, nameless characters (“grandparents and torturers/ and exiles”): each real thing illuminated in its own way by the temporal mystery of its passing and its endurance. Odd Hour is a poignant, beautiful read.”
