Practising AscendingIn Practising Ascending, Nadine Hitchiner asks: "what am I practising?", instead of: "who am I, now?"2023
nadinehitchiner
German poet and author of Practising Ascending (Cathexis Northwest Press, 2023) and the chapbook Bruises, Birthmarks & Other Calamities (Cathexis Northwest Press, 2021). Pushcart Prize nominee and a 2023 Best of the Net Finalist.
Germany
Books
Selected work (16 publications)
Night Errands "Across the moon-whitened street,
through bill-lit windows
like through headless
tambourines, I watch the night run
errands; scat down its cleaning
crews—cloth and karaoke."
poetry
Burning Again / Worty Barn"Honey, if I had nothing else,
I'd eat the grain from the paper
of the first year of our marriage."
poetry
On Poetry: Would We Call it Danger, or Odyssey?"At first, it was the moon that, without its vowels, was an alphabet. I wrote plenty when the sky was clouded, and light spread like a law. When there wasn't a pool in the garden."
The Ungiving"there isn’t a way in this world
a feather on a stone will make anything lighter.
And I know, sadness
has dressed me, and trumpeted on.
Each time, wish I were a beginner, again
at my own grief. Skill-less and accidental.
To know nothing, and live"