[q / Lear] (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780999226339)

Poetry. Q / LEAR] concerns itself with the big issues of mortality and madness --like the play it uses as a backdrop. While some of these poems refer to bodies in decay, the poems themselves build, accrete, and pulse with Hinrichsen's trademark restlessness and energy. As a great poet of the soul as well as the flesh, Hinrichsen explores the primordial dance between the human spirit and our vulnerable bodies while making us experience it anew. --Sue William Silverman