Illegal Combinations

Marlene Lacey

Illegal Combinations

Illegal Combinations

Illegal Combinations
Limited edition (300), numbered, 2012, 50-page, long-poem chapbook, Illegal Combinations, by Walter Hildebrand. Custom “Book Design, Layout, and Print” service provided by Lacey.  

Hildebrandt’s long poem sequences (Illegal Combinations: Glasgow 1787,” “Let Them Eat Grass/The Dakota Wars 1862,” and “London, 2011 Cuba, January 2011,”) “re present” poignant historical events.  Life-altering devastation follows participation in a traumatic event. Tremors and after-shocks catapult change that forever alters geological and human landscapes, shifts direction, and gives birth to freshly-exposed terrain. Historic moments create multiple streams of rippling change.

Struck by these moments, in Illegal Combinations Hildebrandt revisits Glasgow 1787 history, Dakota’s conflict years and visits London and Cuba, 2011. Exposing the past, his poetic probe relinks the present to history; his educated eye “re-peers” history. Through his words, we see past the spasms of change that shook us. Discrete events become continuous and we refin/ed our foundations. Take this reflective journey through time with the personal touch of this poet.

 

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