![]() His most recent work includes schema geometrica, winner of the Wishing Jewel Prize from Green Linden Press, and This Is Where I Live I Have Nowhere Else To Go, winner of the 2020 Grid Poetry Prize. Sometimes they are not easy words or comfortable or cozy words, but they are honest and longing-absolutely human in their undisguised vulnerability.įlesh-plastique is Dennis Hinrichsen’s tenth full-length collection of poetry. His words throughout gleam intensely personal and political, often at the same time: wounded lands of heart and world. ![]() ![]() ![]() In Flesh-plastique, Dennis Hinrichsen is once again, and even more vigorously, a formal genius, every page engineered into a canvas of airborne lines, charted space, and radical gifts of punctuation that feel like symbols and stamps-sometimes even scars. ![]() In a nuclear age without a nucleus to cling to, the poems of Dennis Hinrichsen’s Flesh-plastique flit and careen across time and space, both dexterously and dangerously-grieving, grooving, lusting, waiting-and showing us how to live-fully live!-between an unsettled past and an uneasy future: “I too am cut with Eros and toxicity-fearing death-by isotope and viral load-but still pursuing nakedness.” A searing, audacious, deliberative book. ![]()
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