Rip-Tooth

Winner of the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry

“Devoted as a hawk and just that acutely aware, in Rip-Tooth Dennis Hinrichsen targets his subjects for soulful sustenance, and with every searing line chooses clarity over insanity: in the perceptual realm, in nature, in family, in all the tough brainless inheritances a human poetry must bear up and under and forward. For their exceptional grace and dignity, these poems can be read with sheer gratitude.”—William Olsen