HINGE

by Darci Schummer, Liza Docken

HINGE is conversation between poetry and prose written by poet Liza Docken and fiction writer Darci Schummer. Based on shared titles, each piece in the book is thirty words or less. A sample of the work is below:

Steel Dogs

To him, guns were steel dogs, waiting at the hips of their masters. They did not shit or eat. They heeled, attacked.
He could not imagine a more perfect love.

Steel Dogs

he said of life,
our experiences—silent.
Stoic unwillingness
to engage society,
a former community
whose members heard
the church had been burning
since the early morning hours.

Handbound

First published March 23, 2015

About the author

Darci Schummer is a writer and educator from the Midwest. Primarily a fiction writer, she is the author of the story collection Six Months in the Midwest (Unsolicited Press 2014), co-author of the poetry/prose collaboration Hinge (broadcraft press 2015), and author of the novel The Ballad of Two Sisters (Unsolicited Press 2023). Her work has appeared in Ninth Letter, Folio, Jet Fuel Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Matchbook, and Necessary Fiction, among other places. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Colorado State University Pueblo.

Reviews

[Amanda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Spring 2019;

A delightful gift in a pack of poetry from my Yuletide 2018 swap all come from Minnesota; this was the collaboration in 30-words-or-less by a poet and prose writer following prompts from a journal they had earlier unearthed. It was a fast, but nice read before bed.