Vert

by Dustin Hellberg

In Vert, Hellberg's dexterity in the sonnet form is on full display. These poems range through the comic, the absurd, the weird, the tragic, the sacred, the profane. As if in response to Dickinson's query, 'Unto the Whole - how add?', Hellberg says, 'Hold - my beer'. These poems drag the sonnet, kicking and singing, into new territories and new valances.

60 pages, Paperback

Published October 4, 2023

About the author

Dustin Hellberg is an assistant professor of literature and teaches creative writing in the Department of English Language and Literature, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. He has an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and a PhD from EGS, Switzerland. He has a forthcoming poetry book, A Perfect Sphere on a Frictionless Plane (Delere). He is also working on a new novel and collection of short stories, a poetry chapbook & a translation of Cormac McCarthy's early work into Korean. He has many articles out or forthcoming on evolutionary aesthetics and literary theory. He divides his time between Seoul and Iowa City.