Other People's Lives, Chris Hutchinson

Other People's Lives

Chris Hutchinson

Publisher: Brick Books
PubDate: 7/1/2009
ISBN: 9781894078757
Binding: PAPERBACK
Price: $19.00
Quantity Available: 11
Pages: 128
 

Poetry. With imagination, wit and scrupulous candor, Chris Hutchinson's poems negotiate and renegotiate the shifting no-man's-land between self and others, introspection and public life. Here are poems carrying unflinching perceptions on their own innovative, edgy music, refusing inflations of rhetoric and complacent notions of the inner life, bringing skeptical intelligence and radical imagination--those supposedly incompatible room-mates--into electrical connection. The result is a poetry of daring honesty, close observation, and humanity, executed with exhilarating verve and humor.

Author City: Kelowna, BC CAN

Chris Hutchinson was born in Montreal and has lived in Victoria, Edmonton, Vancouver and most recently Phoenix, Arizona. He now lives in Kelowna, British Columbia. His poems have been translated into Chinese and have appeared in numerous Canadian and U.S. publications. He is the author of Unfamiliar Weather (Muses' Company, 2005) and OTHER PEOPLE'S LIVES (Brick Books, 2009).

Reviews and Other Links
http://chrishutchinsonblog.blogspot.com/
http://booksontheradio.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/telepathic-exercises-the-chris-hutchinson-interview-ep-01/
http://www.mtls.ca/issue5/writings-review-weingarten.php
http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/search/label/Chris%20Hutchinson
http://www.openbooktoronto.com/news/shivering_romantic_interview_with_chris_hutchinson
http://www.ditchpoetry.com/chrishutchinson.htm


"A tender work of trouble and troubles, cracked language, courage. Peer into the cocked eye of this book and discover yourself staring back. A maker of strange and wonder, Chris Hutchinson writes poems that ‘shimmer, break softly open, at once ourselves, and other.'"
—Matt Rader

"Chris Hutchinson's second collection of poems is remarkable for its lyric foldings, its lyric expansions, both of which permit a sort of vivid time travel whre wisdom collects and stands against sadness and happiness—this is the logic of an Elizabethan underground—simply brilliant!"
—Norman Dubie


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