Cage of Water (Akron Series in Poetry)
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
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 Downs Syndrome calling the makes of cars through 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.
From the Author
I must say that Hinrichsen is one of the freshest, most excitingly, lyrical voices I have encountered in a very long time. I went back to poems like "Periodicity" again and again, delighted at how it forced me to see the familiar world in a challenging and expansive new way.
---George Bilgere
Cage of Water (Akron Series in Poetry)
Cage of Water (Akron Series in Poetry),Dennis Hinrichsen,University of Akron Press,1931968160,American - General,General,Military - General,Poetry
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