Under Sleep's New Moon: Rescued Poems, 1970-1990 - Softcover

Hutchison, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 163045074X ISBN 13: 9781630450748

Publisher: NYQ Books, 2021

Synopsis

The road a poet travels is often littered with unrealized fragments, half-realized drafts, and unfinished poems that found their ways into a magazine but never earned their way into a book. If a poet is lucky, a few of such left-behinds might be "rescued," released into their true form thanks to abilities that have ripened over many years of practice. In Under Sleep's New Moon, Joseph Hutchison (Colorado Poet Laureate, 2014-2019) offers a range of such poems, all rescued from twenty years of writing between 1970-1990. The poems in this new/old collection are by turns personal and public, surreal and naturalistic, musical and plain-spoken. But all explore the liminal regions we live in every day, too often unconscious of what we're finding there. What this poet found there he has lifted into new configurations, where at last the poems can speak for themselves.

About this title

About the Author

Joseph Hutchison is the author of 19 poetry collections, including The World As Is: New & Selected Poems 1972-2015, Marked Men, and the Colorado Poetry Award-winning Bed of Coals. He served as Colorado Poet Laureate from 2014 to 2019 and currently directs the Professional Creative Writing graduate program at the University of Denver's University College.

Edition details

• Publisher: NYQ Books
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 163045074X
• ISBN 13: 9781630450748
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64