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Flesh-Plastique
Flesh-plastique, Dennis Hinrichsen's tenth full-length collection, explores an endless array of debris fields, where we experience the repercussions of a life fueled by dirty, secular Eucharists. Moving at hyper speed through worlds-a compromising job in the nuclear industry, the purloined grave of the Apache chief Geronimo (not far from Atomic Annie, a cannon that could shoot a nuclear projectile)-Hinrichsen articulates each scene with a swift directness and capacious emotional range. In collages and atmospheric lyrics with stunning formal collisions, we hear anger and humor directed at the mess we have made of things, from the unsolved problems of nuclear waste and toxic forever chemicals to the decay of the American family. But we also hear joy for the sheer pleasure of music and old technologies; we hear compassion for friends stricken with dementia; and ultimately, we hear notes of hopefulness for a world which swirls wildly and dangerously around us.
Schema Geometrica
"Some of us are content to rearrange the furniture. Dennis Hinrichsen has dismantled the walls, attached a wheelbase to the flooring, and reconfigured the power lines. And wait, I think he has levitated the shrubbery too. But fear not. Page by page and image by image, he leads us through the time- and memory-altering adventure that is schema geometrica. The poems are wild and rigorous at once, joyful and irreverent, abundant with intellect, and sometimes, yes, driven by rage at the wreckage we have made around us. This is not a comfortable couch of a lyric vision. This is lyric determined to imagine a future, and I admire it deeply." --Linda Greggerson"schema geometrica is a 'box of light' whittled from a life marred by darkness. Biblical ekphrasis & Daft Punk, Godzilla & gonorrhea, an extinct paddlefish& an Instagram model's bodily brand of philanthropy -- there are no subjects Dennis Hinrichsen can't juxtapose & wield like a gilded mirror to orient the self in this confounding era. Lyrically dexterous, formally inventive, & humming with vulnerable surprise, schemageometrica is the work of a master poet." --Marcus WickerWinner of the 2020 Wishing Jewel Prize
Skin Music
Poetry. SKIN MUSIC seeks provisional Edens of being and knowing across a spectrum of ever- changing flooded, flooding landscapes. The central motifs, skin and music, are lenses to this inquiry as the poems branch out from a Midwest river town ethos, the geography of family and the breakdown of the local body to the larger, more permanent skins of poetry, art and music. The poems "try on" dialysis and Celan, they "try on" Kline and Parkinson's, they reach out against the shutting down of each moment 600 years into a future built on the chords of a John Cage composition. Lyrical and driven, they strive for that shared human desire of residence in a believable, knowable place."
Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights
In the title poem, ""Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights,"" Dennis Hinrichsen writes a line about his failing grandfather that could encompass the entire book: ""But then the mystery takes over."" Ranging from backyard trees to the Shroud of Turin, from a John Wayne movie to the passionate poetry of Catullus, Hinrichsen explores the pulse and counterpulse that pull us simultaneously towards life and death, often leaving us stranded in the zone between them, where the erotic and the spiritual, the exstravagant and the mundane, inform our daily lives. If any solace is to be found there, these poems suggest that it will come through acceptance and celebration of all the uneasy but natural juxtapositions that constitute the world we know--- The ""Skewed anointings"" by which the earth is strangely stained and blessed.
Dominion + Selected Poems
"Dominion + Selected Poems gathers work from eight award-winning books over twenty-five years. Dennis Hinricshen's recent books include Flesh-plastique and schema geometrica, winner of the Wishing Jewel Prize for poetic innovation, and This Is Where I Live I Have Nowhere Else To Go, winner of the 2020 Grid Poetry Prize. His other awards include the 2015 Rachel Wetzsteon Chapbook Prize from Map Literary for Electrocution, A Partial History, the 2014 Michael Waters Poetry Prize from Southern Indiana Review Press for Skin Music, the 2010 Tampa Poetry Prize for Rip-tooth, the 2008 FIELD Poetry Prize for Kurosawa's Dog, and the 1999 Akron Poetry Prize for Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights. He lives in Lansing, Michigan, where he served as the first Poet Laureate of the Greater Lansing area"--
Cage of Water
The poems in Dennis Hinrichsen's Cage of Water explore collisions of spirit and matter, that thorn-and-thistle bath as he states in the book's final poem, where the limitations and entanglements of the flesh give over to provisional and sometimes fractured radiance and everlasting. This radiance takes many forms---an uncle with Down Syndrome calling out the makes of cars through the hrsh lght, Gds lght, faltring ner th crwn of the skul; a woman's neck cords flaring, leaping out in muscular form, fluted/arc/briefly held instant; his father sleeping, bird cry/pouring/out of him/like string/or/knotted rain as the narrator resists waking him and lets mosquitoes feed. Confronted with the natural world, Hinrichsen peers closely at such things as mules standing in the rain, the flight of a swallowtail, or cloudwork lighting the weave of trout and fashions uncanny threadings of self and other. Throughout the book, Hinrichsen transcends the bright, beautiful cage of the senses in lines and stanzas that are alert to the fluidity and exactness of perception to find the measureless silk of our common existence.
Rip-tooth
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Requiem for the Orchard
These are vivid, visceral poems about coming of age in a place 'where the Ferris Wheel / was the tallest thing in the valley, ' where a boy would learn 'to fire a shotgun at nine and wring a chicken's neck / with one hand by twirling the bird and whipping it straight like a towel.' . . . In spite of such hardscrabble cruelties"or because of them"there is also a real tenderness in these poems, the revelations of bliss driving along an empty highway 'like opening a heavy book, / letting the pages feather themselves and finding a dried flower.' . . . The poet has a gift for rendering his world in cinematic images. . . . In short, these poems are the stuff of life itself, ugly and beautiful, wherever or whenever we happen to live it. "Martin Espada
