schema geometrica by Dennis Hinrichsen
schema geometrica by Dennis Hinrichsen
80 pages
© 2021
ISBN: 978-1-7371625-0-6
Book Design: Christopher Nelson & Dennis Hinrichsen
Cover Art: from Pending Memories, Untitled 10 by Adrián Fernández
Perfect-bound
7.25” x 9.25”
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schema geometrica, the audio album, is available for free here.
Dennis Hinrichsen is the winner of the inaugural Wishing Jewel Prize! Named for an innovative essay in Anne Carson’s Plainwater, the prize is awarded for a manuscript that challenges our notions of what poems can do and what a book can be. schema geometrica, Hinrichsen’s ninth full-length collection is nothing short of visionary. It juxtaposes quasi-sonnets and erasures with illustrations by Marnie Galloway, a Chicago-area cartoonist and illustrator, and Julian Van Dyke, a Lansing-area muralist, painter, and children’s book author. schema geometrica is accompanied by a number of audio and video poems; this is a multimedia collaboration between Hinrichsen and Dylan Rogers, a Lansing-area musician and proprietor of The Robin Theatre, and Tom Larter, musician and composer.
Praise for schema geometrica
Some of us are content to rearrange the furniture. Dennis Hinrichsen has dismantled the walls, attached a wheelbase to the flooring, and reconfigured the power lines. And wait, I think he has levitated the shrubbery too. But fear not. Page by page and image by image, he leads us through the time- and memory-altering adventure that is schema geometrica. The poems are wild and rigorous at once, joyful and irreverent, abundant with intellect, and sometimes, yes, driven by rage at the wreckage we have made around us. This is not a comfortable couch of a lyric vision. This is lyric determined to imagine a future, and I admire it deeply.
—Linda Gregerson
schema geometrica is a “box of light” whittled from a life marred by darkness. Biblical ekphrasis & Daft Punk, Godzilla & gonorrhea, an extinct paddlefish & an Instagram model’s bodily brand of philanthropy—there are no subjects Dennis Hinrichsen can’t juxtapose & wield like a gilded mirror to orient the self in this confounding era. Lyrically dexterous, formally inventive, & humming with vulnerable surprise, schema geometrica is the work of a master poet.
—Marcus Wicker
From and about schema geometrica
“[POEM THAT ENDS UP ON ITS KNEES IN CHINA IN A PAIR OF LEVI'S]," Under a Warm Green Linden
"[I TEXT MY FATHER IN THE AFTERLIFE & HE DOES NOT RESPOND] [W/BECKETT ECHO]," Tinderbox Poetry Journal
“[BOX OF SOUND W/ SOME FUNK IN IT],” The Night Heron Barks
“[schema geometrica] [W/ RAINER MARIA RILKE] [& A TUK TUK] [& A DOG],” The Maine Review
Dennis Hinrichsen reads from schema geometrica (October 12, 2021)
Linda K. Sienkiewicz interviews Dennis Hinrichsen about schema geometrica (April 25, 2022)
In a Digital Wasteland: A Review of schema geometrica, Tinderbox Poetry Journal
![schema geometrica is Dennis Hinrichsen’s ninth full-length collection of poetry. His most recent work includes [q / lear], a chapbook from Green Linden Press and This Is Where I Live I Have Nowhere Else To Go, winner of the 2020 Grid Poetry Prize. His other awards include the 2015 Rachel Wetzsteon Chapbook Prize from Map Literary for Electrocution, A Partial History, the 2014 Michael Waters Poetry Prize from Southern Indiana Review Press for Skin Music, the 2010 Tampa Poetry Prize for Rip-tooth, the 2008 FIELD Poetry Prize for Kurosawa’s Dog and the 1999 Akron Poetry Prize for Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights as well as the 2016 Third Coast Poetry Prize and a 2014 Best of the Net Award. Work of his also can be found in two anthologies from Michigan State University Press, Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice, and RESPECT: An Anthology of Poems on Detroit Music. He lives in Lansing, Michigan, where from May 2017–April 2019, he served as the first Poet Laureate of the Greater Lansing area.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/541f04e8e4b09b50ed9d911b/1620141323392-ZPOPZ9P2PZNEUHN6ZJ9L/Dennis%2BHinrichsen.jpeg)
schema geometrica is Dennis Hinrichsen’s ninth full-length collection of poetry. His most recent work includes [q / lear], a chapbook from Green Linden Press and This Is Where I Live I Have Nowhere Else To Go, winner of the 2020 Grid Poetry Prize. His other awards include the 2015 Rachel Wetzsteon Chapbook Prize from Map Literary for Electrocution, A Partial History, the 2014 Michael Waters Poetry Prize from Southern Indiana Review Press for Skin Music, the 2010 Tampa Poetry Prize for Rip-tooth, the 2008 FIELD Poetry Prize for Kurosawa’s Dog and the 1999 Akron Poetry Prize for Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights as well as the 2016 Third Coast Poetry Prize and a 2014 Best of the Net Award. Work of his also can be found in two anthologies from Michigan State University Press, Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice, and RESPECT: An Anthology of Poems on Detroit Music. He lives in Lansing, Michigan, where from May 2017–April 2019, he served as the first Poet Laureate of the Greater Lansing area.