Ahadada Books is pleased to present First Portions by Hank Lazer. First Portions is the second release in the Ahadada Books Online Chapbook series edited by Catherine Daly - it is our sixteenth online publication. You may download it by clicking here.

Hank Lazer has published 13 books of poetry, including The New Spirit (Singing Horse, 2005), Elegies & Vacations (Salt, 2004), and Days (Lavender Ink, 2002). He edits the Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series for the University of Alabama Press. Lyric & Spirit: Selected Essays 1996-2008 is due out shortly from Omnidawn (and is available at a big discount by clicking here). Please feel free to contact the poet by This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it .

Known for his acute criticism as well as exploratory poetry, Hank Lazer is a poet who might be described as a stylistic risk-taker as well as forager in the treasure house of words. ... 
        -Cynthia Hogue, Rain Taxi

Lazer blends the purposes of poetry and the ISMs of various camps and forges poems that is both fun to read with the heart and with the mind. This is no easy exercise in these days of thick lines between the many classes of poetry.
        -Michael Basinski, Poetry/Rare Books Collection, SUNY-Buffalo

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