I'd love it if you'd use the Musing on Mastery board to post some of their works that really grab you.
In response to your praise, I read Ishion Hutchinson's
three seven poems on the
POETRY website and one in
The New Yorker. Just as for most poems in
POETRY and
The New Yorker, I liked some of the imagery and phrasing, but was left with an overall feeling of having missed the point.
I hope that says more about the type of poems that appeal to the editors of those two publications than it does about me. [Edited to say: Actually, what it says about me is that I'd never heard of this poet before because I haven't paid much attention to two of my country's leading poetry magazines for the past two decades...because I got tired of paying good money just to feel stupid. I can be blissfully ignorant for free.] Perhaps I'll be able to engage better with his other work.
But I might still need some notes in order to see what you see in him. If you can provide some, I'd be sincerely grateful.
I do love this:
I smashed my head against a lightbulb
and light sprinkled my hair;
BTW, here's the series of quarters:
Gotta say, I appreciate the names being on these!