Poetry. Christian Hawkey's CITIZEN OF is an edgy and ominous second collection. Hawkey constructs a visionary world rich with fantastic imagery. In blurring the line of reality versus imagination, this turbulent dreamscape calls into question the frightening and surprising nature of the actual world.

Author City: Brooklyn, NY USA

Christian Hawkey is the author of VENTRAKL (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010), CITIZEN OF (Wave Books, 2007), Hour, Hour, a chapbook which includes drawings by the artist Ryan Mrowzowski (Delirium Press, 2006), and THE BOOK OF FUNNELS (Verse Press, 2004), winner of the 2006 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. In 2006 he was given a Creative Capital Innovative Literature Award and he has also received awards from the Poetry Fund and the Academy of American Poets. He teaches at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and his work has recently been translated into German, Slovene, French, and Portuguese.

Reviews and Other Links
http://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/05/christian-hawkeys-verse-is-very-fast.html
http://www.stridemagazine.co.uk/Stride%20mag%202007/Aug%202007/Mingay%20review%20aug.htm
http://loadsoflearnedlumber.blogspot.com/2008/08/christian-hawkey-citizen-of.html
http://octopusmagazine.com/issue09/svalina.htm
http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2007fall/hawkey.shtml
http://openlettersmonthly.com/issue/three-from-wave-books/