Matthew Hittinger

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An Introduction to Matthew Hittinger’s Work
On the Transformative Power of Hybrid Forms
Why Euclid
Why Do I Write?

Narcissus Resists CreateSpace, 2009 Click Here to Order!

Pear Slip Spire Press, 2007 Click Here to Order!

Selections from Pear Slip:

• Side of a Fruitbox Crate
• How to Write, How Not to Write About Pears
• Pared & Canned
• Silkscreen: Pome in a Bowl
• The Problematic Pear
• This Is Not About Pears

From The Erotic Postulate:

• Bartered Bookcase Travels Blocks
• Despite the Light, the Park Waited and the Museum Slept
• Euclid On the Erotic Postulate
• Grafted
• H.D. in Prismatic Ecstasy
• He Who Lies on the Promenade
• Minor
• Phallic Magic
• Square Dance
• Two Men in a Shower
• Two Ones Remain Two Ones
• Wrestlers Unfinished
• What Part of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Don’t You Understand?

From Skin Shift:

• An Hour After the Meteor Shower
• Cave Theory
• Local Lepidoptera Adopt Municipal Pool for Epic Opera Debut
• Samson in Reverse
• Somersault Precedes Transformation
• The Fresco Worker Appears Suddenly in the Picture
• Uncle Remus Denies the Ethnographer

From Impossible Gotham:

• 45th St Gutter Fall
• Earrings at the Ear Inn
• “Even a Blind Squirrel Wants an Acorn”
• Ditmars to Delphi
• Lunches in Bryant Park
• Mothers Eating Other Mothers' Young
• Quad Skates Rule Skate Circle's Roller Disco
• “—Sittin' There in My Gucci—Waitin'—”
• Upon Hearing the World Premiere of John Sichel's Piano Trio in One Movement
• VHDNKUOSRC

Other Poems:

• Lamp