Poetry. In an unbroken poem of heat and breadth, Polkinhorn explores the phenomena of blue shifting, or inescapable convergence. With an urgency that is at once sprawling and specific, Polkinhorn draws us back towards our own lives—forcing us into their rapid intersections and tight corners. It is ferociously driven. Take a big breath and buckle yourself in for the ride—nowhere you// Can imagine yet their guiltless movements utterly/ Charm you a frisson of recognition the thin// Light a flickering haze and hints of people you/ May have known whose insubstantial forms// Or the abortion that eliminated its chance/ Still barring your way until dawn/ Which will return with its load of cold to be offered/ Up your forearms thigh-bones to keep the channel// Open but whose infancy or vaunted genealogy/ Like a rogue phenotype if you pay strict attention."

Author City: SAN DIEGO, CA USA

Harry Polkinhorn is a psychoanalyst, professor of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University, and director of SDSU Press. He is the author of ten collections of poetry, most recently DEMOS ONEIRON (Junction Press, 2011) and The Circle of Willis (Ex Press, 2010); five works of fiction, including Trauma (Ex Press, 2010); ten volumes of translations; and two collections of visual poetry, including Bridges of Skin Money (Xexoxial Editions, 2008). Among the sixteen books he has edited or co-edited are ACROSS THE LINE/AL OTRO LADO: THE POETRY OF BAJA CALIFORNIA (Junction Press, 2002), with Mark Weiss; and CALÓ: A DICTIONARY OF SPANISH BARRIO AND BORDER SLANG (Junction Press, 2011), with Alfredo Velasco.