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  • Paperback: 114 pages
  • Publisher: Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC (June 1, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1937420140
  • ISBN-13: 978-1937420147
  • Product Dimensions: 8 x 0.2 x 10 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 starsMatthew Hittinger continues to dazzle
By Grady Harp HALL OF FAMETOP 100 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on May 24, 2012
Format: Paperback
The New York poet Matthew Hittinger is no in the category of `new poets to watch'. The publications of his poems increases every year and his works appear in important poetry collections of the highest order. One reason for Hittinger's ever growing popularity is the fat that he experiments with new visual presentations of his words as well as exploring new avenues of thought - fantasies admixed with reality, humanistic themes married to mythological tradition, re-visiting dead poets and artists and finding new pathways to make them come alive in the present time. `SKIN SHIFT' as a title of these new collection is suggestive of the manner in which Hittinger refreshes old ideas, a skin shift is a modern way to describe `metamorphosis' - the viewable, pulsatile change that can result as one organism sheds integument to become something renewed.

From an interview online we can read Hittinger's thoughts: "I'm always looking past the reality around us to see how mundane daily life has echoes with mythology. I'm looking back and finding our source material and bringing them back to life. And so goes this collection, with entire sections devoted to such mythological characters as Narcissus - the various reincarnations are mesmerizing and include favorite topics of the poet. "I can't just write your standard left-justified poem and stanzas. If I'm going to write a sonnet, I can't just write a sonnet, I need to somehow turn it on its head.'

Some examples serve as aperitifs: First from the Narcissus series:
CONCUSSION (from Metamorphosis of Narcissus I)

Hungover, brow cut from a bar brawl,
skin still flushed from blows, Narcissus
crawled home, unsure if it was daybreak
or nightfall.Read more ›
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