Line tamer.
With the pending publication of Pear Slip and its listing on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, my GoodReads user profile has been converted to an author profile. I’ll be posting upcoming events there, including a book release party in December and a book signing at the AWP conference in early 2008. Check it out: Matthew Hittinger.
Pear Slip is now available for pre-order from Spire Press. You can check out the book cover and ordering information HERE. Here are some blurbs: “Take a pear. Any pear. Divide it into sensuous surface and the idea of sensuous surface. Mix with one part philosophy and two parts jeu d’esprit. Pass the whole through Read More …
I picked up this book after reading the first poem (which is rare for me, to have something leap out in such a way) and after noticing a nice list of “notes” at the back (nothing like a well-researched book of poems in conversation with other sources to whet my appetite), and finished it in Read More …
Picked this up in City Lights over the weekend and read it on the plane home today. I was a bit disappointed by both her and the afterword by Mark. Not their best work on the subject of politics and poetry. Still this passage did stuck with me: “I hope never to idealize poetry–it has Read More …
On our way to LaGuardia on the M60 we overheard these two women giving hell to a guy: Woman One: “If my man’s a businessman and he has to work late, he should at least call.” Woman Two: “Mm-hmm.” Woman One: “I don’t want to be sittin there in my Gucci. Waitin.” Above them a Read More …
Finally finished this. I picked it up months ago when I decided to write my beast fable/bestiary. As a kid I was obsessed with “The Bremen Town Musicians” which we had on vinyl and to which I would listen over and over again. After studying the tale I decided to read all 99o-some pages of Read More …
Just found out my sequence Narcissus Resists won the 2007 Beauty/Truth Press Chapbook Competition. They are estimating the print date will be December 1st, and you can check in on their publication schedule here:BeautyTruthPoetryPublications
I heard Derek Walcott read at the 92nd St Y last night (and ran into some poets from NYU I met at Calabash back in May, including Dante Micheaux). The British poet Glyn Maxwell introduced Walcott, and I have to say Maxwell gave one of the best introductions I’ve ever heard. His homage to the Read More …
The Fall/Winter 2007 issue of Beauty/Truth: A Journal of Ekphrastic Poetry is out now and includes two poems: “The Problematic Pear” and “Lamp”. You can check out Beauty/Truth and order copies here: BeautyTruthPoetry
I saw the new opera Margaret Garner last night at New York City Opera, popping my opera cherry here in New York (long overdue given how long I’ve lived here). The opera’s libretto was written by Toni Morrison and the music was composed by Richard Danielpour. Morrison based her famous novelBeloved on the historical events concerning Read More …