One hundred and forty poems written by Andrew Hoyem between 2019 and 2024, published by Artichoke Press in a hardcover volume designed by Jonathan L. Clark, with color cover art by Julie Mehretu. 160 pages. $45 plus shipping. Publication date: 2025. Please contact the press to order.
Andrew Hoyem, fine printer and founder of Arion Press, was a published poet in his youth, a figure in the colorful “Beat Era” San Francisco scene of the 1960s and 1970s. After a nearly 40-year hiatus, he took up poetry again with his retirement in 2018, at 82. Inventing an 18-line form he calls a “pseudo-sestina,” he wrote almost daily through the Pandemic, reflecting on current politics, memories of childhood, and the art forms that have been a life’s passion.
Advance Praise for Resurgence: Poet Robert Hass: “Remarkable for its playfulness and elegance.”
Critic Helen Vendler: “You take in everything from boredom to grief to a dandelion salad, self-gathering in a gathering of self.”
