My first full length book of poems, 102 pages, published in 2013 by Tebot-Bach in Huntington Beach, CA. Available from Amazon.com.
"Like the seasonal concerto's written by the composer
for whom Michael Hanner has named this collection, the poems herein mix a fine
lyric tenderness with something more autumnal and even darker in their moments
of coldest imagining. I was deeply taken by the poems' thoughtful oppositions
of memory and language. This is the kind of refined bittersweetness we seek
from poetry, knowing the salt is absolutely necessary to our brighter
pleasures. Really a beautiful accomplishment."
Erin Belieu
"This is a book you can flip through like a breeze
through a photo album on the screen porch of a summer house you rented from the
author. You lived through many of the same titular years Michael Hanner evokes,
probably, and his seasoned stories-- a certain wet spring in London, Lake
Michigan in November--may set you dreaming of your own exotic summers and
winters. Some things here, though, will remain opaque, singular, clearly
expressed but nearly incommunicable, incomprehensible except in how wryly and
sprightly they lead us through the stages of Hanner's history of illusions and
disillusions, and insist--with superb fidelity to the moment and the slightest
shrug--that although there may have once been more to life, this is what's
left."
Robert Hill Long
"Rhythm and musical forms—ragtime, the “sound of rain
on the truck roof,” violins, bebop, duets, diesel locomotives, arias, Bach,
“even the tango”—underpin Vivaldi, Michael Hanner’s new collection.
Subtitled “An Autobiography,” Hanner explores his American history, European
landscapes, and human—and natural—change in poems that slowly develop
into a fugue of lyric meditation. Warning us, “I forget so easily,” Vivaldi is
an exhortation to the continuity of life: “Behind me winds a vast landscape./There
is the Mississippi/rolled back onto its reel.”
Jordan Hartt
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The Architecture of Holland
A chapbook 28 pages by Red Arrow Books, Eugene, OR. Poems written in Port Townsend, Eugene,
Paris, Le Bugue and Amsterdam over the first six months of 2012.
Cover photograph by author. Astoria Building on the
Keizersgracht, Amsterdam. Designed by architect Gerrit van Arkel, circa 1905.
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