This collection, Hinrichsen’s fifth and most accomplished, will intrigue readers with poems that take, again and again, journeys of risk and insight, rising into vision and rueful delight. Winner of the 2008 FIELD Poetry Prize, Kurosawa’s Dog displays an astonishing range of feeling, form, and human compassion. Its landscapes are both Midwestern and global.

Kurosawa's Dog (Volume 23)

Literature & Fiction

Hinrichsen, Dennis

Poetry

Oberlin College Press

About the Author schema geometrica is Dennis Hinrichsen's ninth full-length collection of poetry. His most recent work includes [q / lear], a chapbook from Green Linden Press 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 as well as the 2016 Third Coast Poetry Prize and a 2014 Best of the Net Award. Work of his also can be found in two anthologies from Michigan State University Press, Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice, and RESPECT: An Anthology of Poems on Detroit Music. He lives in Lansing, Michigan, where from May 2017 - April 2019, he served as the first Poet Laureate of the Greater Lansing area. Product Description Winner of the inaugural Wishing Jewel PrizePoetry. The winner of the inaugural Wishing Jewel Prize, awarded for a manuscript that challenges our notions of what poems can do and what a book can be, schema geometrica is nothing short of visionary. It juxtaposes quasi-sonnets and erasures with illustrations by Marnie Galloway, a Chicago-area cartoonist and illustrator, and Julian Van Dyke, a Lansing-area muralist, painter, and childrenís book author. schema geometrica will be accompanied by a number of audio and video poems, available online this fall; this is a multimedia collaboration between Hinrichsen and Dylan Rogers, a Lansing-area musician and proprietor of The Robin Theatre, and Tom Larter, musician and composer. Book Description Winner of the inaugural Wishing Jewel Prize

schema geometrica

Green Linden Press

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.

Flesh-plastique

Winner of the 1999 Akron Poetry Prize, chosen by Yusef Komunyakaa. Dennis Hinrichsen's new collection of poetry, Detail from the Garden of Earthly Delights, explores those counterpulses that pull us simultaneously toward life and death. He captures the reader between those two zones where, for example, the ungoverned vegetation of a backyard on its pell-mell journey from spring to summer can coexist with a grandparent's decaying mind, or where a parent can hold a newborn to the light and sense both the joy of singing her to sleep as well as the staining of her body and lungs by the very air she breathes. Solace is found in these poems through acceptance and celebration of these juxtapositions and ³skewed anointings²‹a cold drink. . . river, a goldfish appears and spring arrives again. These are echoes and reverberations of the ambient world, taken in and acknowledge despite the fevered dreams of violence. From the familiar human landscapes of marriage and parenting, of backyards and spiritual drought, the poems move from a close and awe-struck observation to final acceptance and celebration of the things that mar and stain us. The multitextured aspect of Hinrichsen¹s poems gives pleasure both to the reader¹s ear and eye.

Detail from the Garden of Earthly Delights (Akron Series in Poetry)

University Of Akron Press

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.

Detail from the Garden of Earthly Delights (Akron Series in Poetry (Paperback))

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.

Skin Music

Southern Indiana Review Press

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