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Parallel Press releases 'A Visionary's Company' by Rick Hilles
Posted 3/22/2000
MADISON, Wis.--A Visionary's Company by Madison author Rick Hilles is the newest chapbook from Parallel Press, an imprint of the UW-Madison libraries. Chapbooks are small-format literary works, usually of poetry or essays.
Many of the poems in this latest chapbook were inspired by historic figures and incidents. "Visions of Captivity: Neulengbach, 1912" is written from the perspective of the Austrian painter Egon Schiele. The poem deals with incidents from the artist's life to create an imaginary world. It also touches broader subjects of censorship and artistic freedom.
The title poem is written from the point of view of William Blake's wife and artistic collaborator, Catherine Blake.
Hilles is the 1999-2000 Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin's Institute for Creative Writing. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Nation, The New Republic, and The Paris Review. His poetry has earned him The Missouri Review's Larry Levis Editors' Prize, as well as fellowships from the the MacDowell Colony, the Djerassi Foundation, and the Vermont Studio Center. Rick was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University from 1995-1997, and received a B.A./L.S.M. from Kent State and an M.F.A. in writing from Columbia University.
Each chapbook is $10; annual subscriptions for six chapbooks are $50.
Titles may be ordered by writing: The
Parallel Press, 236 Memorial Library, 728 State St., Madison, WI
53706. For information, see their Web
site at
