Distributed for Oberlin College Press
Kurosawa’s Dog
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.
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