Dominion + Selected Poems gathers Dennis Hinrichsen’s best work from forty years of publishing. 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 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. He lives in Lansing, Michigan, where he served as the first Poet Laureate of the Greater Lansing area.

Praise for Dennis Hinrichsen

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

Some of us are content to rearrange the furniture. Dennis Hinrichsen dismantles the walls... His 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

Dennis Hinrichsen is a formal genius, every page engineered into a canvas of airborne lines, charted space, and radical gifts of punctuation... His words gleam intensely personal and political: wounded lands of heart and world. Sometimes they are not easy words or comfortable or cozy words, but they are honest and longing—absolutely human in their undisguised vulnerability.
—Maureen Seaton

In a nuclear age without a nucleus to cling to, the poems of Dennis Hinrichsen flit and careen across time and space, both dexterously and dangerously—grieving, grooving, lusting, waiting—and showing us how to live—fully live!—between an unsettled past and an uneasy future.
—Lauren Russell

There are no subjects Dennis Hinrichsen can’t juxtapose and wield like a gilded mirror to orient the self in this confounding era. Lyrically dexterous, formally inventive, and humming with vulnerable surprise, here is the work of a master poet.
—Marcus Wicker

From Dominion

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

• One poem from ballast

• One poem from Timber