Skin Shift - Softcover

Hittinger, Matthew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937420140 ISBN 13: 9781937420147

Publisher: Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC, 2012

Synopsis

Matthew Hittinger's Skin Shift assembles a metamorphosis taxonomy in poems that spider spin, that nimbus twirl into Wonder Woman and leap with the Aboriginal kangaroo woman, that escape from a sub-trunk with Houdini and seduce like the Amazon's pink river dolphin man. Traditional forms morph into experimental narratives, lyrics and dramatic monologues that present an invitation to slip inside the skins of others and to experience the mythologies that resonate in modern times.

About this title

About the Author

Matthew Hittinger was born and raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and earned his Bachelor of Arts in Art History and English from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 2000, and his Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in 2004. He is the author of Pear Slip (2007), which won the Spire Press 2006 Chapbook Award, Narcissus Resists (2009), and Platos de Sal (2009). Shortlisted for the National Poetry Series, the New Issues Poetry Prize, the Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize, the Akron Poetry Prize, and twice for the Walt Whitman Award, Matthew's honors include a Hopwood Award and The Helen S. and John Wagner Prize from the University of Michigan, the Kay Deeter Award from the journal Fine Madness, two Sundress Best of the Net nominations, and eight Pushcart Prize nominations. He lives in New York City.

From the Back Cover

"Matthew Hittinger's poems have all the cool of an exquisitely-chiseled statue, but the blood that charges through their veins is pure hot glory. Even the poems themselves are shape-shifters, daring to branch across the page like tattoos, or unfolding into prose. Sumptuous and elemental, Skin Shift is an unforgettable debut." - Mary Biddinger, author of Prairie Fever and Saint Monica

"Matthew Hittinger conjures poems like spells, tells them like fortunes, metamorphoses material like magic in his stunning debut volume. Some of the poems break boundaries like taboos, shocking us with sass, while others cast their lines utterly into invention." - Cynthia Hogue, author of Or Consequence

"Matthew Hittinger's addictive incantations brazenly remix mythologies, both ancient and ultramodern. What results is a serious work of queer world-making: the forbidden homo-history of humankind in lusty, literary, lyric Technicolor." - Troy Dwyer, author of Caw and World Headquarters

Edition details

• Publisher: Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1937420140
• ISBN 13: 9781937420147
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 114