Dominion + Selected Poems, Dennis Hinrichsen’s eleventh full-length collection, gathers his best work from forty years of publishing. Formally adroit and lyrically rich, Hinrichsen’s poems unerringly map both the zeitgeist and the subjective psyche. His recent books include Flesh-plastique and schema geometrica, winner of the Wishing Jewel Prize for poetic innovation, and This Is Where I Live I Have Nowhere Else To Go, winner of the Grid Poetry Prize. His other awards include the Field Poetry Prize, the Michael Waters Poetry Prize, the Tampa Poetry Prize, the Akron Poetry Prize, and the Rachel Wetzsteon Chapbook Award. He lives in Michigan, where he served as the first Poet Laureate of the Greater Lansing area.

Praise for Dominion + Selected Poems

The four-decade trajectory of Dennis Hinrichsen’s poetry epitomizes a classic American version of aesthetic self-fashioning and refashioning. Every style Hinrichsen creates he then breaks and remakes. In this way, he has recapitulated, more than once, the great changes undertaken by major postwar poets like Merwin, Rich, and Wright. I’ve followed his impatient art through its every decade, in recent years quickening my pace to keep up. Few poets write with greater imaginative restlessness (even as the heart holds steady), and no poet more deserves a retrospective of this sort. —Steven Cramer

One thing that makes these poems extraordinary, and there are many, is the way they give us multiple surprising routes deep into the familiar. The conduit is richly metaphoric language that’s passionate, intimate, inventive, unafraid of what it might discover, and clear. What mysteries, the poems ask, underlie our ordinary emotions, memories, inquiries of mind? Each poem answers that question with meticulous precision, mapping out the ways the extraordinary, numinous, sometimes ruined world is right here, if only we know where to look. And we must look, say the poems, because the mysteries of our lives turn out to be the meaning of our lives. —Chase Twichell

Bringing a museum to his poems—a confluence of architectural, harmonic, atonal, geometric, choreographic, photographic, subatomic, incongruously new and enlivened experiences—Dennis Hinrichsen welcomes our participation in the power of ambiguity. For this writer, everything belongs with everything, and anything belongs with anything. Dominion + Selected Poems reveals the span of his astonishing vision, a vision that leads me into awe. —Jack Ridl

I had already read and loved the books from which the selected poems in Dominion were taken, but I have to say: the marvel of so many great Hinrichsen poems under a single cover announces his mastery in no uncertain manner. Hinrichsen’s language—his command of image and metaphor—possesses a power to perform a sort of transubstantiation, by which the ordinary we might see or experience becomes a wholly new substance, real in a different way, formally inventive, further fleshed out, and, in many cases, delightfully stranger. —Justin Hamm

From Dominion

• Two poems from Under a Warm Green Linden, Issue 16

• One poem from ballast

• One poem from Timber