Rain At Midnight - Softcover

Hutchison, Joseph

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1890932124 ISBN 13: 9781890932121

Publisher: Sherman Asher Publishing, 2000

Synopsis

Poems that embody a sense of risk and a physical longing to connect to the world where the body lives. Critics praise the intimate moments of family life that recall William Carlos Williams and the unbridled sensuality of D.H. Lawrence.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Joseph Hutchison is the author of four full-length collections of poems, The Rain At Midnight (Sherman Asher Publishing, 2000); Bed Of Coals (winner of the 1994 Colorado Poetry Award and published by the University of Colorado Press, 1995); House Of Mirrors (James Andrews & Company, Publishers, 1992); and The Undersides Of Leaves (Wayland Press, 1985). He is also the author of six chapbooks, including the 1982 Colorado Governor's Award volume, Shadow-Light, and most recently, The Heart Inside The Heart. Mr. Hutchison's poems have appeared in such publications as American Poetry Review, The Colorado Review, The Denver Quarterly, The Hudson Review, Luna, Midwest Quarterly, Mississippi Review, The Nation, Ohio Review, Poetry (Chicago), and in several anthologies. He has also published short fiction, literary essays, and book reviews in a variety of magazines. Born and raised in Denver, Colorado, Mr. Hutchison graduated summa cum laude from the University of Northern Colorado and earned his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. For several years, he taught writing in Colorado's Poets in the Schools program, for the Rocky Mountain Writers Guild, and for the University of Colorado at Denver; currently, he teaches in The Writer's Program of the University of Denver's University College. A member of PEN Center USA West and The Colorado Authors` League, Mr. Hutchison makes his living as a writer.

About the Author:

Joseph Hutchison, Poet Laureate of Colorado 2014-2018, was born in Denver, Colorado, and grew up in the northwestern-most neighborhood of the city. He was a founding editor of the literary magazine Pendragon and co-founder of Wayland Press, a literary publisher that for more than a decade produced books of both poetry and fiction. He is the author of 16 collections of poems, including The Satire Lounge, Marked Men, Thread of the Real, Bed of Coals (winner of the Colorado Poetry Award), and the Colorado Governor's Award volume Shadow-Light. He also co-edited, with Andrea Watson, the FutureCycle Press Good Works anthology Malala: Poems for Malala Yousafzai (all profits to the Malala Foundation), and with Gary Schroeder, the anthology A Song for Occupations: Poems About the American Way of Work. For more than 20 years he made his living as a commercial writer but recently became Director of the Arts and Culture program at University College, the University of Denver's adult and continuing education college, where he has taught as an adjunct for many years. Joseph has two children, Susannah and Brian, and lives with his wife, Iyengar Yoga instructor Melody Madonna, in the mountains southwest of Denver.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sherman Asher Publishing
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1890932124
• ISBN 13: 9781890932121
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 100