It is a pleasure to announce the publication of Dominion + Selected Poems by Dennis Hinrichsen. Gathering his best work from forty years of publishing, these formally adroit and lyrically rich poems unerringly map both the zeitgeist and the subjective psyche.
"A treasure trove of his most poignant poems and a record of a poetic conscience at its most elevated and elevating." —Khaled Mattawa
"The four-decade trajectory of Dennis Hinrichsen’s poetry epitomizes a classic American version of aesthetic self-fashioning and refashioning. Every style Hinrichsen creates he then breaks and remakes. In this way, he has recapitulated, more than once, the great changes undertaken by major postwar poets like Merwin, Rich, and Wright. ... Few poets write with greater imaginative restlessness (even as the heart holds steady), and no poet more deserves a retrospective of this sort." —Steven Cramer
"What mysteries underlie our ordinary emotions, memories, inquiries of mind? Each poem answers that question with meticulous precision, mapping out the ways the extraordinary, numinous, sometimes ruined world is right here, if only we know where to look. And we must look, say the poems, because the mysteries of our lives turn out to be the meaning of our lives." —Chase Twichell
"Book after book, Hinrichsen has 'polished the shock' of language so that we might bear witness to its strange gleam. But his dynamic lexicon goes well beyond language play. It’s always tugging at the seams between the mundane and the holy." —Aaron Coleman
October 11 at Book Suey — Hamtramck, MI (with Cal Freeman, Timothy Geiger and Jassmine Parks) October 26 at Everybody Reads — Lansing, MI (with Shlagha Borah) November 2 at Kazoo Books — Kalamazoo, MI (with Kathleen McGookey) November 26 at The Robin Theatre — Lansing, MI
2025
February 8 at Uncloistered Reading Series — Toledo, OH March 16 at Hungry Brain Reading Series — Chicago, IL April 12 at Rally of Writers — Lansing, MI (with Sarah Carson) April (TBD) at 2 Dandelions — Brighton, MI (with Sarah Carson and others)
Dennis Hinrichsen'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 Grid Poetry Prize. His other awards include the Field Poetry Prize, the Michael Waters Poetry Prize, the Tampa Poetry Prize, the Akron Poetry Prize, and the Rachel Wetzsteon Chapbook Award. He lives in Michigan, where he served as the first Poet Laureate of the Greater Lansing area.
