Advance Praise:
Lost Signal is a metaphysical field guide, lullaby, and virtuosic figuration of grammar, the poet “hammering sheets of darkness” into a “parable of punctuation” with Stevensian elan from Vancouver to the Yukon and Atlantis. Hutchinson restores a haptic primacy to poetry’s power to touch, to move, offering a revelatory alternative to mortality: surrender to lyric origins, “spirit flooding in.”
–– Virginia Konchan, author of Requiem
Lost Signal stretches poetics beyond the linear, taking into account the multiplicity of experiences that shape identity. Hutchinson calls into question not just the future, but the past and the present through smokescreens of afterhours parties, revolution, and the glare of contemporary capitalism/democracy.
–– Conor Kerr, author of Prairie Edge
Chris Hutchinson is one of the most finely tuned poets in Canada, and in this new collection, his intensity and originality are on full display. Lost Signal is a dizzying imaginative ride through a contemporary-culture-assaulted psyche where “at the pinnacle of distress … our schemes / dissolve, along with all traces / of their computations.” The ride is a compelling one, shot through with pathos, intellectual acuity, and a subtle and highly affecting creative cry.
–– Russell Thornton, author of The White Light of Tomorrow
There’s also this rare collectable, which can only be ordered through the Contact Page: Born Stumbling is a comic adapted from the novel Jonas in Frames, and illustrated by Alex Cieslik
Feel free to contact me directly, and I’ll send you a signed, personally inscribed, and blessed copy of any or all of the above titles.
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