Publisher Description

This collection, Hinrichsen's fifth and most accomplished, will intrigue readers with poems that take, again and again, journeys of risk and insight, rising into vision and rueful delight. Winner of the 2008 FIELD Poetry Prize, Kurosawa's Dog displays an astonishing range of feeling, form, and human compassion. Its landscapes are both Midwestern and global.

Author Biography

Hinrichsen earned an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Iowa. Currently, he teaches at Lansing Community College in Michigan.

Table of Contents

Bresson's Donkey • Portrait of My Father as the Heather Vole • On a Watch Chain Woven from Hair, Dated 23.10.22 • The Sound-of-One-Hand-Clapping Shout • Cruel All Moons and Bitter the Suns • Poem in Three Voices • To Keep Herself from Me • Fragment • Little Odysseus • Amish Linen • Lion and Gin • Whitman Burning • Kiva Burning • On Purgatorio I • (False) Ambient • Viewing the Holy Ghost, Horseshoe Canyon • Catfish • Crazy Horse Mountain • Deer, Crows • Tarkovsky's Horse • Kurosawa's Dog • Does Not Sleep • Deer Poem • Resurrection Yoga • Coyote Bliss • Notes • Acknowledgments

Review

"Poem as trickster, poem as grief-scape, poem with its fierce noticing - Dennis Hinrichsen has written essential poems from an essential landscape. That is, these poems were born of necessity and crafted by a poet who understands the cunning of a comma, the devastations of the line." -- Mary Ann Samyn
"The poems in this collection - born out of father and Iowa and desert, born out of the burning and visionary places - possess a gravitational pull so powerful I can feel the great bards of language (Dickinson, Stevens, Bishop) craning over my shoulder to read." -- John Rybicki

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