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Back in February, Didi Menendez and Emma Trelles guest-blogged on The Best American Poetry site for a week. It was the same week as AWP and I fear some of their posts may have gotten lost in the tumult. As the festival of the chapbook gets underway here in NY in the coming days, I’d Read More …
The very generous Grady Harp has reviewed Platos de Sal. Here are some excerpts: Rarely has same sex love been so discreetly shared, or so erotically charged simply through the use of a few phrases or words. In the form of a beautifully constructed poem Matthew Hittinger has related a story other writers would need Read More …
Around the time Narcissus Resists was released poet Andrew Demcak wrote his five-part poem sequence Pink Narcissus in response to the 1971 James Bidgood film (which I also reference in Narcissus Resists). Andrew was kind enough to dedicate his poem to me in celebration of the release of Narcissus Resists (very sweet Andrew, thank you!). You can Read More …
From the Seven Kitchens website: Platos de Sal: poetry by Matthew Hittinger. Number Two in the Editor’s Series from Seven Kitchens Press. Cover art by Lori Hayes. $7. 24 pages. ISBN: 978-0-9820372-6-3. Available March 31 — order yours now! How to order: To order chapbooks ($7 each plus $1 shipping for 1-2 copies or $2 Read More …
Of all of H.D.’s work, next to Notes on Thought and Vision (which proves a good key or legend to understanding Trilogy) this is my favorite and I suspect her most important epic poem (though I am fond of Helen in Egypt andHermetic Definitiontoo). Trilogy consists of three books: These Walls Do Not Fall; Tribute to the Angels; and The Read More …
Grady Harp, an Amazon Top 10 Reviewer, was kind enough to review Narcissus Resists. Here is the full review: “Matthew Hittinger and Further Discoveries in Language and Art” Matthew Hittinger in this his second book of poetry (see Pear Slip) seems content to focus on a single thought or idea or object or myth or Read More …
One of the many images informing Narcissus Resists is this massive drawing by the artist Jess (Burgess Collins), poet Robert Duncan’s long-time companion and lover. This is all graphite on paper and collage paste-up; Jess began it in 1976 and finished it in 1991: I first saw it at SFMOMA back in March 2005 when I was Read More …
I close out the Spring 2009 Issue of Phoebe with three geometry-inflected poems: “Triangulated,” “To Euclid On the Geometry of Behavior,” and “Triptych of Brooklyn Bridge in Marriott Room 556.” This one’s solely a print journal, so if you want to read them, you’ll need to get yourself a copy, which you should do because Read More …
Head on over to Seven Kitchens Press where you can find a preview for the cover of my third chapbook, Platos de Sal, forthcoming this spring as Number Two in SKP’s Editor’s Series. The cover is a painting by my friend Lori Hayes; you can check out more of her work here.
There was this viral post floating around Facebook to name your top 20 poetry books. I tweaked it; 20 felt too limiting, but 25 felt about right. I excluded more recent discoveries/obsessions/influences to sample some of the books that were important to me during my “formative” years (1998-2004). I limited myself to one book per poet, Read More …