What, Why, How: Dennis Hinrichsen

What:

schema geometrica, my ninth full-collection, is a departure from my previous work in that it was conceived as a project book on two fronts.

For the longest time I wanted to write a book entirely of short poems, so the first parameter was form. So I zeroed in on the sonnet, or broken sonnet, as the shape, with collage as the logos. Joseph Cornell’s wonderful boxes were a model as well as the tableau vivant style of Sergei Parajanov’s film, The Colour of Pomegranates. I really wan...