Category: Books
When the Time Comes
(Dos Madres Press, 2022) A book-length meditation on the final weeks of the poet’s mother, Wendy Lazer, Hank Lazer’s When the Time Comes offers a clear-eyed witnessing of the dissolving of a life. As in the Zen priest Joan Halifax’s book title, Being with Dying, Lazer’s poems attempt to do just that:…
field recordings of mind in morning
Opposing Poetries: Volume Two—Readings
(Northwestern University Press, 1996) Opposing Poetries presents a selection of Hank Lazer’s writing on a range of issues in contemporary American poetry. Through a series of recurring cultural, material, and institutional perspectives, Lazer investigates the assumptions and habits that govern conflicting conceptions of contemporary American poetry, while refining, reconsidering, and…
Opposing Poetries: Volume One—Issues and Institutions
(Northwestern University Press, 1996) Opposing Poetries presents a selection of Hank Lazer’s writing on a range of issues in contemporary American poetry. Through a series of recurring cultural, material, and institutional perspectives, Lazer investigates the assumptions and habits that govern conflicting conceptions of contemporary American poetry, while refining, reconsidering, and…
Lyric & Spirit: Selected Essays, 1996-2008
(Omnidawn, 2008) This selected—the first compilation of essays by Hank Lazer following his ground-breaking and much revered two-volume Opposing Poetries—offers twelve years of incisive writing at the intersection of two of the more contentiously debated topics in current letters. Drawing on poetic traditions as seemingly disparate as Language writing…
Inter(ir)ruptions
(Generator Press, 1992) Charles Bernstein on Inter(ir)ruptions: “To be is to be interrupted” (interpreted) might be the motto of Hank Lazer’s novel series of poetic investigations titled Inter(ir)ruptions. Everyday life is hysterical, or hysterically ruptured with excruciating, often hilarious, detail or detritus or do you know another way to…
Negation
Simple Harmonic Motions
Deathwatch for My Father
When the Time Comes

(Dos Madres Press, 2022) A book-length meditation on the final weeks of the poet’s mother, Wendy Lazer, Hank Lazer’s When the Time Comes offers a clear-eyed witnessing of the dissolving of a life. As in the Zen priest Joan Halifax’s book title, Being with Dying, Lazer’s poems attempt to do just that:…
field recordings of mind in morning
Opposing Poetries: Volume Two—Readings

(Northwestern University Press, 1996) Opposing Poetries presents a selection of Hank Lazer’s writing on a range of issues in contemporary American poetry. Through a series of recurring cultural, material, and institutional perspectives, Lazer investigates the assumptions and habits that govern conflicting conceptions of contemporary American poetry, while refining, reconsidering, and…
Opposing Poetries: Volume One—Issues and Institutions

(Northwestern University Press, 1996) Opposing Poetries presents a selection of Hank Lazer’s writing on a range of issues in contemporary American poetry. Through a series of recurring cultural, material, and institutional perspectives, Lazer investigates the assumptions and habits that govern conflicting conceptions of contemporary American poetry, while refining, reconsidering, and…
Lyric & Spirit: Selected Essays, 1996-2008

(Omnidawn, 2008) This selected—the first compilation of essays by Hank Lazer following his ground-breaking and much revered two-volume Opposing Poetries—offers twelve years of incisive writing at the intersection of two of the more contentiously debated topics in current letters. Drawing on poetic traditions as seemingly disparate as Language writing…
Inter(ir)ruptions

(Generator Press, 1992) Charles Bernstein on Inter(ir)ruptions: “To be is to be interrupted” (interpreted) might be the motto of Hank Lazer’s novel series of poetic investigations titled Inter(ir)ruptions. Everyday life is hysterical, or hysterically ruptured with excruciating, often hilarious, detail or detritus or do you know another way to…