This is a scan of the first page of my first
book, IN THE MARBLE OF YOUR ANIMAL EYES, and I'm THRILLED to
announce that it's finally available at Publication
Studio. I am tremendously grateful to Patricia No and Antonia
Pinter/ Publication Studio (Portland) for taking so much care to honor this
compost book and its unusual habits.
…….
Joseph Lease has said, “In the Marble of Your Animal Eyes is
gorgeous and heartbreaking, and it changes everything. Nathan Hauke is one of
the best poets writing today.” A visual compost that tracks the breakdown of a
marriage next to the process of writing the manuscript text through layers of
old letters, handwritten journals and earlier drafts, In the Marble of Your
Animal Eyes, is a postmodern eclogue that attempts to address upheaval
by exploring the way divorce rewires pastoral imaginations of place. These poems were
hand-edited and those edits appear in facsimile transcription, a transparent
erasure of things past that marks the force with which poverty strips away
static notions of identity to reveal what is and is not essential to generative
contact with the world. A sequence from In
the Marble of Your Animal Eyes was recently featured in the “Textual
Ecologies” section of The Arcadia
Project: Postmodern North American Pastoral (Ahsahta 2012). Hauke’s
poems have been published in a wide variety of journals including American Letters & Commentary, Colorado
Review, Denver Quarterly, Interim, The Laurel Review, and New American Writing.
