• Title: Other People's Lives
• Author: Chris Hutchinson
• ISBN: 1-894078-75-6
• ISBN-13: 978-1-894078-75-7
• Pages: 128
• Year: 2009
• Size: 6" × 8.75"
• Price: $19.00

 Exciting music, delicious ironies, radiant self-awareness. 

With imagination, wit and scrupulous candour, Chris Hutchinson's poems negotiate and renegotiate the shifting no-man's-land between self and others, introspection and public life. Here are poems carrying unflinching perceptions on their own innovative, edgy music, refusing inflations of rhetoric and complacent notions of the inner life, bringing skeptical intelligence and radical imagination-those supposedly incompatible room-mates-into electrical connection. The result is a poetry of daring honesty, close observation, and humanity, executed with exhilarating verve and humour.

Each day's a notch on the oven dial
the sadistic hand of summer turns. The locals here
wear mirrored glasses with the mirrors reversed!
Was I ever filled with sweetness and courage?
For miles and miles the asphalt unwinds, the river's
evil twin. So is desire your enemy's friend,
goes the jazz of imagined footsteps

slapping the city's impervious skin. So each day
lapses, un-spools each night as I go scheming
ways to continue, safe within and darkly through
an immaterial sublime. But the walls are sweating
and the windows here peer in towards this sheltered
corner of the universe-where I'm in trouble again
with words, and other people's lives.

- from "Cross-Sections"

"A tender work of trouble and troubles, cracked language, courage. Peer into the cocked eye of this book and discover yourself staring back. A maker of strange and wonder, Chris Hutchinson writes poems that ‘shimmer, break softly open, at once ourselves, and other.'" - Matt Rader

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On Writing, with Chris Hutchinson - read about Chris Hutchinson and his writing process http://www.openbooktoronto.com/news/writing_with_chris_hutchinson

On-line literary magazine ditch includes 9 poems excerpted from Other People’s Lives in anthology 4.  To read these poems by Chris Hutchinson, go to pages 80 to 89 at http://www.ditchpoetry.com/anthology.htm

Chris Hutchinson reads from the new book on YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5qOpXxrUPo - Chris Hutchinson reads excerpts from Cross Sections at the 49th Parallel reading, AWP Conference Chicago, February 14, 2009. 

"Shivering Romantic": An Interview with Chris Hutchinson - Submitted by Open Book Toronto Guest on August 7, 2009 - By Alessandro Porco - read this interview at  http://www.openbooktoronto.com/news/shivering_romantic_interview_with_chris_hutchinson

Telepathic Exercises: The Chris Hutchinson Interview - Books on the Radio has finally launched! The first interview was conducted in the front room of the temporarily empty Kelowna home of poet Chris Hutchinson. During the interview we discussed te...lepathy, Henry Miller’s the Tropic of Cancer, Sharon Thesen, institutionalized poets and John Coltrane.

Chris’ new book of poems is called ‘Other People’s Lives‘ and is published by Brick Books

You can purchase a copy at any quality independent bookstore.

You can listen to the interview by clicking here http://booksontheradio.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/telepathic-exercises-the-chris-hutchinson-interview-ep-01/