He graduated from the university of massachusetts amherst um amherst with a. With an active marketplace of over 175 million items, use the alibris advanced search page to find any item you are looking for through the advanced search, you can find items by searching specific terms such as title, artist, song title, genre, etc or you can narrow. Sonne from ort, a collaborative bilingual erasure made with the german poet uljana wolf, appeared in 20 kookbooks verlag, berlin. His first collection, the book of funnels, received the 2006 kate tufts. Christian hawkey is the author of the book of funnels verse press, 2004. The book of funnels wave books, 2004 and citizen of wave books, 2007.
The book of funnels kate tufts discovery award christian hawkey on. The book of funnels by christian hawkey wave books. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. Christian hawkey is the author of two fulllength poetry collections the book of funnels and citizen of, numerous chapbooks, and most recently the crossgenre book ventrakl. Christian hawkey is the author of two collections of poetry. Pratt institute is a global leader in higher education situated in new york city.
At the risk of reading too much into a design decision that may or may not have been hawkeys own, these xs suggest appropriately beguiling site markers for this odd. Christian hawkey, a poet and translator of german poetry, was born in. In christian hawkey s first collection of poetry, the book of funnels, forces of nature transport us to an alternate oz, one where both speaker and reader negotiate heightened landscapes. His first book, the book of funnels, appeared in 2004 and won the kate tufts discovery award. His work has been translated into german slovene, french, swedish, arabic, italian, spanish, portuguese, and dutch. Hour hour delirium press, 2005, petitions for an alien relative hand held editions, 2009, ulf factory hollow press, 2010, and sonette mit elizabethanischem maulwurf hochroth verlag, 2010. In christian hawkeys first collection of poetry, the book of funnels, forces of. There is a sense in the book of funnels that hawkey is trying to hand over to the reader all things altogether at once, as if the world were an object made of infinite facets that have to been seen simultaneously to be understood. Christian hawkey is the author of petitions for an alien relative a chapbook, hand held editions, 2010, ventrakl ugly duckling presse, 2010, citizen of wave books, 2007, hour, hour, a chapbook which includes drawings by the artist ryan mrowzowski delirium press, 2006, and the book of funnels verse press, 2004, winner of the 2006 kate tufts discovery award. In 2006 he received a creative capital innovative literature award. Christian hawkey christian hawkey poems poem hunter.
Hour hour delirium press, 2005, petitions for an alien relative hand held editions, 2009, ulf factory hollow press, 2010, and sonette mit elizabethanischem maulwurf hochroth verlag. Ventrakl is a book that folds poetry, prose, biography and visual media into an experimental translation of 19thcentury german expressionist poet george trakl. Office of recuperative strategies featuring christian. The book of funnels is one of the strangest and most beautiful first books of poetry i have read in a long time. The funnel is appropriate transport, for it lifts the ordinary objects of the. He is an associate professor at pratt institute, where he teaches in both the humanities and media studies department and the writing program. It was opened in 2010 by christian hawkey and rachel levitsky. Search for library items search for lists search for contacts search for a library. One wonders how freud, who was writing around the same time, would have read this book.
His new book, citizen of, was just released by wave books. Christian hawkey is the author of three books of poetry. His poetry collections include the book of funnels 2004 and citizen of 2007, which won the kate tufts discovery award. Rob casper presents christian hawkey the poem of christians i choose from the book of funnels takes the end of the driveway as a point of departure, and inhabits a psychic landscape as meaningful in its openness as michael teigs is in its focus. Christian hawkey born 1969, hackensack, nj, is an american poet, translator, editor, activist, and educator. In 2006 he was given a creative capital innovative literature award and he has also received awards from the poetry fund and. A fourth chapbook, ulf, has just been published by factory hollow press, and his newest book, ventrakl, is a mixedgenre exploration of the life and work of georg trakl ugly duckling presse, fall 2010. Recent awards include a 2006 creative capital innovative literature award and a 2008 daad artistinberlin fellowship. Christian hawkey is the author of several books, most recently the collaborative erasure with poet uljana wolf, sonne from ort kookbooks, 2012 and the crossgenre work,ventrakl ugly duckling presse, 2010. His work has been translated into german 1 slovene, french, swedish, arabic, italian, spanish, portuguese, and dutch. And in this case, perhaps it would be better to call hawkey not a surrealist, but a cubist on a grand scale. A third book, ventrakl, is forthcoming from ugly duckling presse.
The poems in hawkeys most recent volume, citizen of of 2007 navigate between internal and external landscapes, between imagined worlds and socalled real worlds. Christian hawkey, is an american poet, translator, editor, activist, and educator. Christian hawkey has been awarded the kate tufts discovery award and prizes from the academy of american poets and the poetry fund. His crossgenre, multimedia book ventrakl 2010 explores the work and life of poet georg trakl.
The office of recuperative strategies oors is a mobile research platform that explores new ways to affirm and promote the reuse, perversification, reanimation, and reparation of precarious or correctable cultural phenomena. Christian hawkey has written two fulllength poetry collections. A ghost storynot in the flashlightundertheface, seatedaroundthecampfire sense, but rather in the hauntological, derridean one. His poetry has been published in various magazines and anthologies in sweden, slovenia, austria, germany. All but one of the six sections of christian hawkeys panoramic debut are.
The institute prepares its students for successful careers through its schools of art, design, architecture, information, and liberal arts and sciences. Christian hawkeys the book of funnels verse press, 2004 received the kate tufts discovery award. The book of funnels wave books, 2005 and citizen of wave, 2007. In nota bene eiswein, eileen tabios applies the methodology of making eiswein, a german sweet wine, for extracting poems from her readings of christian hawkeys poetry collection the book of funnels and sarah birds novel the flamenco academy nota bene eiswein extends tabios body of work that is unique for melding ekphrasis with transcolonialism. Hawkey has taught english and creative writing at amherst and at the pratt institute in brooklyn. Christian hawkey is the author of petitions for an alien relative a chapbook, hand held editions, 2010, ventrakl ugly duckling presse, 2010, citizen of wave books, 2007, hour, hour, a chapbook which includes drawings by the artist ryan mrowzowski delirium press, 2006, and the book of funnels verse press, 2004, winner of the 2006 kate. Hawkeys wry and expansive poems take a postmodern approach as they interrogate how we construct the self.
Reanimation library word processor christian hawkey. The book of funnels kate tufts discovery award paperback october 1, 2004 by christian hawkey author. The funnel is appropriate transport, for it lifts the ordinary objects of the world and blends them in unexpected ways. His books include the book of funnels, citizen of, and ventrakl ugly duckling presse, 2010.
Ventrakl, citizen of, the book of funnels, and a number of chapbooks. Help us create the kind of literary community youve always dreamed of. Excerpt from the book of funnels 2004 by christian hawkey. Christian hawkey is the author of the book of funnels and the chapbook hourhour. Christian hawkeys ventrakl folds poetry, prose, biography, translation. Christian hawkey is the author of several books of poetry, including sonne from ort, ventrakl, citizen of, the book of funnels, and a number of chapbooks. The book of funnels is one of the most beautiful first books of poetry i have read in a long time. Christian hawkey is currently considered a single author. Joe diebes, christian hawkey, and david levine the.
He is an assistant professor of english and creative writing at the pratt institute in new york city. Kate greenstreet dear kate, thanks for getting in touch. Hawkey was born and raised on pine island, florida. In christian hawkeys first collection of poetry, the book of funnels, forces of nature transport us to an alternate oz, one where both speaker and reader negotiate heightened landscapes. Raised on pine island, florida, poet and translator christian hawkey was educated at the university of massachusetts, amherst. After drafting associative translations of several trakl poemswith only the source languages sound and graphic representation as a guidechristian hawkey uses this material to generate poems and interviewpoems conducted. His poetry collections include citizen of wave books, 2007 and the book of funnels wave books, 2004, which won the 2006 kate tufts discovery award. Christian hawkey is the author of ventrakl ugly duckling presse, 2010, citizen of wave books, 2007, hour, hour, a chapbook which includes drawings by the artist ryan mrowzowski delirium press, 2006, and the book of funnels verse press, 2004, winner of the 2006 kate tufts discovery award. He is the coordinator of the mfa in writing program at pratt institute.
Christian hawkey was raised on pine island, florida. Christian hawkey has written two fulllength collections the book of funnels, 2005. Hawkey s wry and expansive poems take a postmodern approach as they interrogate how we construct the self. Christian hawkey is the author of the book of funnels, citizen of, and ventrakl. His poetry collections include the book of funnels. A lecture on the poetry of georg trakl and robert walser presented by susan bernofsky and christian hawkey. He received a 2006 creative capital innovative literature award and a 2008 daad artistinberlin fellowship.
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