Dennis Hinrichsen
Dennis Hinrichsen is the author of three chapbooks and seven previous full-length collections. His most recent work is is [q / lear], a chapbook from Green Linden Press, and Skin Music, winner of the 2014 Michael Waters Poetry Prize from Southern Indiana Review Press. His previous books include Rip-tooth (2010 Tampa Poetry Prize), Kurosawa’s Dog (2008 FIELD Poetry Prize), and Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights (1999 Akron Poetry Prize). Other awards include the 2015 Rachel Wetzsteon Chapbook Prize from Map Literary for Electrocution, A Partial History as well as the 2016 Third Coast Poetry Prize and a 2014 Best of the Net Award. New work of his 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. From May 2017 - April 2019, he served as the first Poet Laureate of the Greater Lansing [MI] area.
This is where I live i have nowhere else to go
Winner of 2020
OFF THE GRID poetry PRIZE
“Hinrichsen’s language is itself an immersion. “It bubbles out//this music//in pure abandon” into a punctuation-free “ricochet cinema” with intense haiku-like close-ups and lines that leap from margin to margin following “little warps in gravity.” ... It is a pleasure to get lost in this poet’s soundscapes, to explore “loneliness and / or holiness” to be “held…carefully” and, like a sleeping monkey on the other side of the world, stir “to rub (our) eyes in astonishment & wonder.””
“Dennis Hinrichsen’s terribly beautiful new book embodies an unpalatable truth: when the body that bore us dies, a part of our body dies too. From then on, mortal and mortified flesh repeatedly proves itself a defenseless envelope—at the Pulse nightclub massacre; in the “great hall of dying men” Whitman haunts during the Civil War; in six harrowed meditations on photographer Sally Mann’s studies of human decomposition, among many other locations and dislocations. ... This book teems with heart and mind, and will leave readers breathless.””
