The Propaganda Factory, or Speaking of Trees

by Marc Vincenz

In these taut lyrical poems, Marc Vincenz navigates society through a Fellini camera capturing voyeuristic meditations and startling moments of flux. The citizens of “The Propaganda Factory” try to imagine what lies behind the Wall. Businessmen on the Brechtian stage yearn to speak of trees, Kafka’s secret police have an ear pressed to the glass, and ‘shadows drag behind like bats’.

40 pages, ebook

First published August 20, 2011

About the author

Marc Vincenz was born in Hong Kong to Swiss-British parents during the height of the Cultural Revolution. He divides his time between Reykjavik, Zurich and Boston where he works as a journalist, poet, writer, translator, editor and book designer. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Washington Square Review, Fourteen Hills, Canary, Manhattan Review, Plume, Saint Petersburg Review, Crab Creek Review, The Bitter Oleander, Exquisite Corpse, Guernica, The Potomac, Spillway Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, MiPOesias and Inertia. Recent books include: The Propaganda Factory, or Speaking of Trees; Pull of the Gravitons; Gods of a Ransacked Century; Mao’s Mole; Behind the Wall at the Sugar Works; Additional Breathing Exercises; Beautiful Rush and the forthcoming This Wasted Land (with Tom Bradley). His recent translations include, Kissing Nests by Werner Lutz , Nightshift / An Area of Shadows by Erika Burkart and Ernst Halter, Out of the Dust by Klaus Merz and Grass Grows Inward by Andreas Neeser