The BlackbirdChristian Schlegel Across five talk poems, composed mostly in public and revised in tranquility, Christian Schlegel's The Blackbird takes up (and puts down somewhere else): the Catskills, Fancy Lad Skateboarding, Robert Musil, Lee Lozano, UFOs, Toni Erdmann, childhood, short stories, and friendship. In "thought refracted through speech and formed into lines," The Blackbird addresses us in every sense of the present tense, making private enthusiasms