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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 CoalsISBN: 978-1938853333Publication Date: January 21, 2014Length: 78 pagesBinding: 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
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Don’t Miss My U.S. Book Launch Reading with Kyle Laws on Friday, May 25th
In late April I launched my new collection, Eyes of the Cuervo | Ojos del Crow, at the boutique seaside hotel Melody and I have enjoyed every year for more than two decades. (See the YouTube video below.) Eyes/Ojos is a bilingual, illustrated edition translated into Spanish by Patricia Herminia with drawings by Sabina Espinet. It is limited to 250 copies which have been numbered and signed by moi. Now, on May 25th, comes the official U.S. launch of Eyes/Ojos, in the Mad Blood Presents reading series hosted in Evergreen, Colorado.Read More
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Legions of the Sun: Poems of the Great War
Legions of the Sun: Poems of the Great War is Joseph Hutchison’s 3rd edited anthology of poems. Title: Legions of the Sun: Poems of the Great War ISBN: 9781610195041 Publication Date: March 14, 2018 Length: 98 pages Binding: Trade paper From the Introduction: This anthology, consisting mainly of American poets writing during and after the Great War, grew out of a text called “War of Words,” which I created for performance by actors from The Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities. It was composed to be part of the Center’s 18-month-long commemoration of America’s engagement in that transformational conflict.Read More
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Eyes of the Cuervo / Ojos del Crow
Eyes of the Cuervo / Ojos del Crow is Joseph Hutchison’s 17th collection of poems. Title: Eyes of the Cuervo / Ojos del Crow ISBN: 9781610195034 Publication Date: May 1, 2018 Length: 72 pages Binding: Trade paper Eyes of the Cuervo/Ojos del Crow is a bilingual edition of poems written at one of two “boutique” posadas—Capitán Lafitte or its equally soulful successor, Petit Lafitte—both situated north of Playa del Carmen on the Caribbean coast of México. The poems have been translated into Spanish by Patricia Herminia and illustrated by Colorado artist Sabina Espinet.Read More
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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