Reviews

Praise for…Capturing Sunrays in a Glass Jar

With all the brilliance and improvisational artisanship of a renaissance painter, B. K. Hotchkins is a great poet of vividness—the unbridled love for words that binds writer and reader, abstract and substantive, certain and the unexpected. In Capturing Sunrays in a Glass Jar he examines the roles of human pursuit toward the unattainable; love, happiness and perfection. In taut, meticulously crafted paragraphs, he paints effervescent stanzas… “he was told luckily the girls were still born so they didn’t suffer/what an emotional buffer delivered with such tact/their bodies removed the day before in an attempt to spare him additional emotional distress/yes, he wanted to see her one last time, them for the first, but until then he needed time to grieve/asked the authorities to leave then loaded his revolver…”. Capturing Sunrays in a Glass Jar is the powerful first book in a new trilogy by an underground visual poet whose work never ceases to challenge and surprise his readers.
Samuel Newton, Urban Folklore Magazine

Poetry is an art form used to evoke feelings, capture the essence of relationships, and provide metaphors for life using words to create mental pictures for our conscious digestion. The poems featured in this volume of work do all of that plus some. The prose flows as an extension of Hotchkins’ take on situations and how carefully strung words can create a totally different mental picture. Capturing Sunrays in a Glass Jar is a work of genius. This book is unquestionably a conversation starter that will stir up the most intense debates about love, life and happiness. Hotchkins is a one of a kind poet with a unique skill for creating “fictional grandeur” out of the most mundane moments in life. Capturing Sunrays in a Glass Jar will certainly make waves in the poetry arena. Pick up the first edition because it will truly be a collectors item.
Monique Bruner, Reviewing for Real Page Turners