Max Alletzhauser

Max Alletzhauser https://maxalletzhauser.com Max Alletzhauser Wed, 05 Jun 2024 07:46:40 +0000 https://maxalletzhauser.com en Header https://maxalletzhauser.com/Header Tue, 24 May 2022 12:43:34 +0000 Max Alletzhauser https://maxalletzhauser.com/Header MAX ALLETZHAUSER Writing Translation EditingAboutWhat’s on? Email ©2026 Poetry, Ink. WRITING https://maxalletzhauser.com/WRITING-1 Mon, 23 May 2022 15:12:25 +0000 Max Alletzhauser https://maxalletzhauser.com/WRITING-1 ESSAYS AND LITERARY CRITICISM   ︎︎︎“25 Ways to Read a Poem.” On Wallace Stevens’ Collected Poems and Derridean deconstruction. Independent, 4660 words, Spring 2018 ︎︎︎“‘Autobiography of a Fever’.” Review of Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume II: 1956-1963. Independent, 5840 words, January 2019 ︎︎︎“Autofiction and the Self.” On Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle, vols. 1-6 and Edward St. Aubyn’s Patrick Melrose quintet. Independent, 3431 words, Fall 2019 ︎︎︎“Autonomous Sanctification: Regarding Melville’s Second Best.” On Clarel. Independent, 5443 words, Fall 2020 ︎︎︎“Edifice of Memory.” Review of Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal. Texte zur Kunst, 21 July 2021  ︎︎︎“Eliot’s Shadow: Striding Behind You, Rising to Meet You.” On Valeria Luiselli’s Lost Children Archive, Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and the aesthetics of T.S. Eliot’s poetry. Independent, 2728 words, Spring 2020  ︎︎︎“Marximalism.” On Mark McGurl’s The Program Era, Raymond Carver, Sandra Cisneros, Denis Johnson and literary minimalism. Independent, 1500 words, Spring 2020  ︎︎︎“The Literal Disadvantage.” On the post-colonial problems in the theory of early American literature. Independent, 3241 words, Spring 2020 ︎︎︎“The Reaper: Death as a Force of Nature in O Pioneers!” Independent, 3961 words, Fall 2020 ︎︎︎“The Rest is Noise.” On Don DeLillo’s White Noise and 1980s literary politics. Independent, 4561 words, Spring 2020 ︎︎︎“Thomas Jefferson: Choosing the Chosen.” On the works of Robert Beverley, William Byrd, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Smith, Royall Tyler, and J. Hector St. John de Crèvecouer. Independent, 5113 words, Spring 2020 ︎︎︎“Review of ‘Howl’ (Part I): Three Swedish Translation.” The first comparative review review of every extant translation of Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ published in Swedish. Independent, 5960 words, Fall 2020  ︎︎︎“Whitman’s Stature.” On the critical reception of Leaves of Grass and Whitman’s influence on English and American poetics and criticism, from Randall Jarrell, Ezra Pound, Denise Levertov, Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Eliot Norton and Harold Bloom to Jorge Luis Borges. Independent, 2844 words, Fall 2019 POETRY ︎︎︎‘Kriget kommer’ & ‘2½ sonnets’ in att riddaren har dukket op, Biskops Arnös författarskola — anthologi, grundår ’24-25, (2025). Reviewed here. ︎︎︎‘Again’ and ‘Listening to Wagner,’ The SCOP. (4 June 2024) ︎︎︎‘Botswana in the Time of Plato,’ Eunoia Review. (17 May 2023) ︎︎︎The Veil, illustrated by Sam Kentridge. Private press (limited edition of 25), Johannesburg (2022) ︎︎︎Except Everything. Chapbook, Stockholm (2020) ︎︎︎Imitations of ‘Imitations’: Robert Lowell Translations Retold. Unreleased, Stockholm (2018) ACADEMIC ︎︎︎Ars Poetica and the Manual for Living in Ashbery’s “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.” Master’s Thesis, supervised by Professor Daniel Kane. Department of English, Uppsala University. 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As a writer, his leading interests lie in life-writing, formalism, 20th century Anglo-American literary history, and the urge towards self-reflection. In early 2022 he collaborated with the Johannesburg artist Sam Kentridge on The Veil, an illustrated book of twelve poems released in a limited edition. In his translations, he works from Swedish to English within literature and the arts. His commissioning clients include the Royal Institute of Art, Magasin III and Transit. He is currently translating of a collection of Swedish poetry, and has recieved grants from Kulturrådet, Stiftelsen Längmanska kulturfonden and Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse.He was born and raised in South Africa, and educated in the United States. WHAT'S ON? https://maxalletzhauser.com/WHAT-S-ON Wed, 05 Jun 2024 07:46:40 +0000 Max Alletzhauser https://maxalletzhauser.com/WHAT-S-ON –Study Circle ︎︎︎Contemporary Poetry V  (with Elizabeth Clark Wessel)Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhuset 4 Feb. - 27 May 2026  <img width="1500" height="1125" width_o="1500" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7c0245ae6b1e5936f84d851be538ad512fee82134090a560a93667286a9e8c5c/Deller-3.jpg" data-mid="226149760" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7c0245ae6b1e5936f84d851be538ad512fee82134090a560a93667286a9e8c5c/Deller-3.jpg" /> –Poetry workshop and reading ︎︎︎Nordic Poetry Today (at ABF-huset)with Amina Elmi, Judith Kiros, Olli-Pekka Tennilä and Max Alletzhauser 5 March 2026 <img width="1024" height="1536" width_o="1024" height_o="1536" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/042f5657b554fff2d5ccbbbea489bdf961f9a2b08cfd5878ba04c2ed047b625f/IMG_0775.PNG" data-mid="245312491" border="0" data-scale="82" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/042f5657b554fff2d5ccbbbea489bdf961f9a2b08cfd5878ba04c2ed047b625f/IMG_0775.PNG" />