This Is Where I Live I Have Nowhere Else to Go

Poetry. Dennis Hinrichsen's THIS IS WHERE I LIVE I HAVE NOWHERE ELSE TO GO is a formally adventurous, cinematic collection of poems about everything at once--father, mother, family, the brutality of American history, the Pulse nightclub shooting, Alzheimer's--all seen through the successive lenses of science, music, language, arcane history, photography, and film, with cameos by Rilke, Sally Mann, Whitman, Coltrane, Blake, Janelle Mon e, Donne, Bosch, and The Shadows of Knight. These poems are meditations, brief quests for somewhere to stand in the tumultuous world. "Provision / us / a mercy" the poet writes, "more steadfast / // more transcendent // than this child's breath."