Critical Commentary
For Redshift
It’s nothing short of stunning what Bernd Sauermann can create in less than a hundred words. Do not ask whether these are poems or small fictions. They are sui generis and they are universal. They are human life captured elegantly and vividly and deeply. Redshift is a remarkable book by a splendid young writer.
Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
For Seven Notes of a Dead Man’s Song
Seven Notes of a Dead Man’s Song is a rich and rigorous collection, its absurdities elevated by a lyric intensity that rewards repeated reading. For once the tender buttons loosen and these sentences shed their skins, bold patterns are revealed, rendered not just with painterly precision but with real human longing—profound and plenty sharp enough to break your heart like an ashtray."
Brett Eugene Ralph, author of Black Sabbatical
