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The World As Is
The World As Is is Joseph Hutchison’s 16th collection of poems.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
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Marked Men
Marked Men is Joseph Hutchison’s 15th collection of poems. Title: Marked Men ISBN: 9781625490346 Publication Date: June 26, 2013 Length: 88 pages Binding: Trade paper “Marked Men is a book where truth finally catches up with history. Deeply researched, with language unmatched by any I’ve seen, this is a work honest in its depth, alive with past and present worlds, with old ghosts, and powerful layers of our landscape. Even if you think you know the history of Sand Creek, this book will grab you up and carry you off by the scruff of the neck.Read More
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Bed of Coals
Bed of Coals is a revised and corrected paperback reissue of Joe’s Colorado Poetry Award-winning 8th collection, previously available only in the out-of-print hardback edition. Title: Bed of Coals ISBN: 978-1938853333 Publication Date: January 21, 2014 Length: 78 pages Binding: Trade paper “This collection impresses me as far more than skillful, very much lived and intense. Intensity is its strength and the skill is pervasive.Read More
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2019, has published 20 collections of poems and edited or co-edited three poetry anthologies. He currently directs two master’s-level programs for University College at the University of Denver: Professional Creative Writing and Arts & Culture Management. Joe lives with his wife, Melody Madonna, in the mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, the city where he was born. 
