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 (14 publications)
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."
Essay
personal essay
lyric essay
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"
poetry
To George, in the Distance"When I hold you
with my left eye,
I forget
the colour of hornets,
through the panel
of their wings. I want
to tell you,
you are beautiful,
by turning thirty
in your arms."
poetry
Conservatory"Nothing happened in the fantasy—his skin is still full
of harps."
poetry