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"Again and again in Christina Hutchins's exquisite Tender the Maker , poems startle us into awareness of the overlooked, the nearly always invisible (such as a library's unused dictionary), and the marvelous, those aspects of life that come under the rubric of 'mystery,' in all senses of the word. Hutchins combines a pitch-perfect and precise lyricism with a postmodern sensibility of language's materiality." —Cynthia Hogue, judge for the 2015 May Swenson Poetry Award "An elegantly crafted, dense work that invites readers to travel on spiritual, philosophical, and historical journeys." —Kirkus Reviews " Tender the Maker revisits the age-old comparison between poet and deity, highlighting its blind spots, namely the times when creating also means losing, destroying, forgetting. . . . Each poem becomes a map where time and space intersect and unearth connections that help us confront the weight of history, whether our own or that of others." —Fjords Review "[T]hroughout the book, Hutchins guides me into her patient, fragile, complex vision. . . . Both the depth and the precision of Hutchins's work arise from her exact attention to the 'motion-in-relation' of herself as an artist, w

Author

Christina Hutchins

Publisher

Logan: Utah State University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781607324393

Subjects

Poetry, Literary Fiction, Humanities