Dennis Hinrichsen is the author of twelve full-length collections of poetry. Formally adroit and lyrically rich, Hinrichsen’s poems unerringly map both the zeitgeist and the subjective psyche. His recent books include Dominion + Selected Poems, 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 dementia lyrics

The scattered scintillations of the poems in dementia lyrics convey related laments—for two friends diminished and finally felled by dementia, but also for the poisoned rivers and wounded cities the poet isn't alone in experiencing. Tough-minded, tender, gritty, visionary—the voice of this book is all these. Hinrichsen's work is the utterance of a loyal friend and a candid witness whose poems, however unsparing, leave room for humanity and hope. —Rachel Hadas

• Two poems from dementia lyrics

• One poem from Action, Spectacle