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A Place for the Genuine
If someone had told me in 1972, when I was 21 and about to graduate from the University of Northern Colorado, that one day a poem I had recently published would appear in an anthology alongside works by Thomas Merton, Charles Olson, Paul Blackburn, Gary Snyder, Diane Di Prima, Robert Kelly, Edward Dorn, Diane Wakoski, and—wait for it—Stephen King … well, I would have told that someone to take a hike.Read More
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Interview with Maryka Gillis
IN THE SPIRIT of naked self-promotion, I invite you to read Maryka Gillis’s interview with me at Folded Word.Read More
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Poems in Prose in JuxtaProse
Three new prose poems of mine appear in the new issue of JuxtaProse Literary Magazine, one of the more handsome online publications. One, “The Bat Man,” is dedicated to my friend John Todd, who wrote a wonderful study of the bat archetype as part of his certification as a Jungian Analyst. John’s wife, Sabina Espinet, is a fine artist and Web designer who gave this site of mine its distinctive look.Read More
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House of Mirrors
House of Mirrors is Joseph Hutchison’s second full-length collection. The evocative cover art is by Denver artist Patty Miller. Title: House of Mirrors ISBN: 0-9614643-3-X Publication Date: 1992 Length: 98 pages Binding: Trade paper “House of Mirrors is one of those rare books of poetry that takes you utterly by surprise, that steals into your life with every intent to stay. It’s a lovely, deeply moving collection of poems that strikes a fine balance between the demands of intellect and the lyric urge.Read More
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Sweet Nothing Noise
Sweet Nothing Noise is Joseph Hutchison’s fifth chapbook collection. Title: Sweet Nothing Noise ISBN: 0-933573-15-4 Publication Date: 1991 Length: 32 pages Binding: Saddlestitched From the book: WESTWARD FLIGHT Aloft over pinestubbled mountains, threads of road and river-ribbons, groves like smudges of sexual hair. The sky is blue as a gas-flame’s heart, and a cloud shadow floods the battered land, makes a lake he half wants to enter. Diving from such a height—how sweet. The shallowest grave is healingly deep. Or is death no cure—only a love-wound endlessly staring in the cold ground? He shuts his eyes to think I’m here, still here.Read More
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The Heart Inside the Heart
The Heart Inside the Heart is Joseph Hutchison’s sixth chapbook collection. It was illustrated and designed by California artist John C. Ransom. Title: The Heart Inside the Heart ISBN: 0-933573-19-7 Publication Date: 1999 Length: 32 pages Binding: Saddlestitched From the book: SEDUCTION The mind has a way of wandering most when you least expect it. There it goes, off the edge, avoiding this obvious line your eye dutifully follows— to what end? To wherever past each forest a bridge reaches, then a wall, walls and roofs.Read More
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The Rain at Midnight
The Rain at Midnight is Joseph Hutchison’s fourth full-length collection. Title: The Rain at Midnight ISBN: 1-890932-12-4 Publication Date: April 2000 Length: 96 pages Binding: Trade paper “For twenty five years I have admired Joseph Hutchison’s poems. The Rain at Midnight shows him to be better than ever at touching our hearts.Read More
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The Undersides of Leaves
The Undersides of Leaves is Joseph Hutchison’s first full-length collection. The cover and interior woodcuts are by Denver artist Patty Miller. ISBN: 0-933573-02-2 Publication Date: 1985 Length: 58 pages Binding: Trade paper “Poets reading The Undersides of Leaves will recognize in its pages a writer of great skill and inventiveness. But who cares about what poets think? Contemporary poetry needs readers who aren’t poets, reader who will be moved not by technique but by the oetry that rises above it.Read More
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Thread of the Real
Thread of the Real is Joseph Hutchison’s 13th collection of poems.Read More
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The Earth-Boat (Revised 2nd Edition)
The Earth-Boat is Joseph Hutchison’s 14th collection of poems. Title: The Earth-Boat (2nd Edition—a revised version of the out-of-print first edition published in December 2012) ISBN: 978-1-61019-214-9 Publication Date: February 14, 2015 Length: 22 pages Binding: Trade paper The eighteen poems in this collection take an arc-like journey through western North America. Colorado, Mexico, California—regardless of place, Joseph Hutchison finds a way to commune with nature and communicate with people. These poems simultaneously describe focused moments and broad narratives in language infused with the inhabitants and sensations of each place. Crows. Comets. Mountains. Oceans.Read More