Christopher Kennedy is the author of Nietzsche’s Horse, Trouble with the Machine, and Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death, due from BOA Editions next year. He is the director of the M.F.A. program in creative writing at Syracuse University.

• October 2006: Review of Russell Edson’s The Rooster’s Wife
• September 2004: Review of Elana Greenfield’s At the Damascus Gate