Stargazer’s Kitchen

Summary

Medium: Print book

Status: Complete (2015)

Presentation/Publication history: Published by Synecdoche Press in 2015

Description

Stargazer’s Kitchen is my first published collection of poetry and features the visual art of sculptor Maggie Hazen. From the press description of the book:

Featuring the poetry of William Hicks and the sculpture of Maggie Hazen, Stargazer’s Kitchen offers a delicately intertwined world of language and visual art. Poignant, funny, and at times tragic, the poems and art of Stargazer’s Kitchen come together in a powerful call and response, creating a whole that is both beautiful and thought-provoking. Not just an art book grafted onto a book of poetry, this first title from Synecdoche Press offers a meaningful and moving conversation between artist and poet. Poetry becomes visual and sculpture becomes literary as you read through Stargazer’s Kitchen.

To View

Stargazer’s Kitchen is available for purchase through SPD Books as well as at Booklyn in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. You can read an excerpt and view some of the artwork at the Synecdoche Books website.

News

• 2016-07-06: Last year, the brilliant Ethel Barja (author of Gravitaciones) translated one of the poems (“Moon Cellar”) from Stargazer’s Kitchen into Spanish and posted it to her blog. Check it out, along with the rest of her wonderful work!