FutureCycle Press Publishes Bed of Coals by Joseph Hutchison

MURPHY, N.C. - Jan. 22, 2014 - PRLog -- FutureCycle Press (www.futurecycle.org) is pleased to announce the publication of Joseph Hutchison's full-length volume of poetry, Bed of Coals. Originally published by the University Press of Colorado in hardcover (1995), this 1994 Colorado Poetry Award-winning book has long been out of print. Now the collection again sees the light of day in both paperback and Kindle editions.

Bed of Coals is a poetic sequence that tells a story of emotional crisis and recovery at the unsparing hand of Eros. Rooted in transgression, the poems honor the powerful psychic energies at work in the book’s tragicomical hero, whose name is Vander Meer. They trace his journey toward balance and wholeness in ways that reflect his struggle: shifting points of view, mercurial mood-swings, now layered and allusive, now plain as a single plucked guitar string. It is a highly crafted but deeply human book, a book for readers who appreciate the strange richness of our inner lives.

Joseph Hutchison is the author of 15 collections of poems, including Marked Men, Thread of the Real, The Earth-Boat, and Bed of Coals.. He co-edited, with Andrea L. Watson, the FutureCycle Press anthology Malala: Poems for Malala Yousafzai, proceeds of which benefit the Malala Fund (www.malalafund.org) to support girls’ education. Hutchison makes his living as a commercial writer and as an adjunct professor of graduate-level writing and literature at the University of Denver’s University College. He and his wife, yoga instructor Melody Madonna, live in the mountains southwest of Denver.

Bed of Coals and Malala: Poems for Malala Yousafzai are both available through the FutureCycle Press Catalog at www.futurecycle.org and on Amazon.