Hillringhouse, Mark. Between Frames: Poems & Photographs by Mark Hillringhouse. SIGNED.

Serving House Books, 2012.  Introduction by Thomas E. Kennedy.  Illustrated wraps, 97 pages.  Near fine with slight curling of covers. SIGNED and inscribed on preliminary title page. 30 poems and numerous black-and-white photographs by the poet and photographer.  Most of the photos were taken in New Jersey, among them images of Great Falls, Paterson; Lackawanna Station, Hoboken; Arlington Diner; Angel Billboard, Vineland; Fabian Theater, Paterson; Maple Shade Motel; Bendix Diner, Hasbrouck Heights; et al.  Hillringhouse is a professor of English at Passaic County Community College and his writing and photographs have been published widely.  At the time of this book's publication, he had received three New Jersey Council for the Arts fellowships.  Endorsers on back cover include George Tice (see photo). Summary:

Between Frames: Poems & Photographs by Mark Hillringhouse is a hybrid collection that combines poetry and black-and-white photography to portray a fading, post-industrial American landscape—especially in New Jersey. The book captures scenes such as abandoned theaters, roadside diners, and declining main streets, using them to evoke a “vanishing America” rooted in memory and everyday experience.

Through the interplay of image and text, Hillringhouse explores themes of loss, nostalgia, and quiet beauty amid decay. His work blends personal reflection—family history, guilt, and longing—with broader meditations on time, place, and the emotional weight of ordinary environments. The result is an atmospheric, elegiac portrait of a world suspended between past and present, intimacy and emptiness.

Mark Hillringhouse is an American photographer, poet, essayist, and educator known for his intimate documentary portraiture and visual chronicles of American literary culture and regional landscapes. Working at the intersection of text and image, Hillringhouse developed an extensive body of photographic work documenting the East Coast arts community, notably creating a landmark series of black-and-white environmental portraits of New York School poets and contemporary literary figures including John Ashbery, Amiri Baraka, and Allen Ginsberg. He served as a founding editor of the American Book Review, edited for the New York Arts Journal, and worked as Poetry Director for the William Carlos Williams Center for the Performing Arts, frequently pairing his photography with written works in publications such as The American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, and The New York Times. His notable visual and literary collaborations include the photobook project Paterson Light and Shadow with poet Maria Mazziotti Gillan, as well as his volume Talking All Night: The New York Poets, which seamlessly integrates his candid portrait photography with long-form interviews. Characterized by atmospheric lighting, quiet humanism, and a deep sensitivity to place, Hillringhouse’s photographic archive stands as an essential visual document of mid-to-late 20th-century American poetic and cultural history.