Detail from the Garden of Earthly Delights
- List Price: $25.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Edition: 1
- Publisher: Univ of Akron Pr
- Publish date: 09/01/2000
Description:
Dennis Hinrichsen's new collection of poetry, Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights, explores those counterpulses that pull us simultaneously toward life and death. He captures the reader between those two zones where, for example, the ungoverned vegetation of a backyard on its pell-mell journey from spring to summer can coexist with a grandparent's decaying mind, or where a parent can hold a newborn to the light and sense both the joy of singing her to sleep as well as the staining of her body and lungs by the very air she breathes.
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Solace is found in these poems through acceptance and celebration of these juxtapositions and "skewed anointings". These are echoes and reverberations of the ambient world, taken in and acknowledge despite the fevered dreams of violence.
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