Tender the Maker

"Again and again in Christina Hutchins’s exquisite Tender the Maker , poems startle us into awareness of the overlooked, the nearly always invisible (such as a library’s unused dictionary), and the marvelous, those aspects of life that come under the rubric of ‘mystery,’ in all senses of the word. Hutchins combines a pitch-perfect and precise lyricism with a postmodern sensibility of language’s materiality.” —Cynthia Hogue, judge for the 2015 May Swenson Poetry Award "An elegantly crafted, dense