Necessary (Downingfield, 2025)
“In a long poem composed of lyric fragments, Necessary shows us how pieces of a world coalesce and drift or are sundered apart. The poem’s vast range of reference gives this writing a sense of continuous, restless movement: the reader navigates time and site as the poem wrestles with itself ‘to question an account/traverse a distance.’ Though David Harrison Horton is a writer of some restraint, Necessary nonetheless rings with urgency. It is by turns outraged, weary, yearning,—in short, always ready ‘to feel the complications/to feel.’ At a most vexed and painful time in human history, this is indeed necessary writing: it enters the fray to truly, bravely ‘reckon a human position.’” – Elizabeth Robinson
You can read about it and purchase a copy here.
You can read James Bradley’s review of it here.
You can read Billy Mills’ review of it here.
Model Answers (CCCP Chapbooks, 2024)
“Do you like reading writing by experimentally minded authors? DH Horton has just published this amazing thing: Model Answers. Visually more straight-up than his (amazing) Maze Poems but…its not, its new wave cinema 2024: beijing co-penetrates 7-11, etc” – Jorge Boehringer.
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Maze Poems (Arteidolia, 2022).
Maze Poems blend Montaigne-esque essay with the surrealist practice of automatic writing. The thought and language of each fit within a visual maze format, literally the shape of that thought. Or rather, each thought fits the shape of its maze.
You can read about it here, and you can purchase a copy here.
You can read Daniel Barbiero’s review of it here.
You can read John Grenier’s review of it here.
Other Works
A Country Funeral (Oragami Poems, 2025). Microchap.
Salt & Iron (In Parentheses, 2020). Serialized chapbook.
BeiHai (Nanjing Poetry, 2005). Chapbook, out of print.
Pete Hoffman Days (Pinball, 2003). Chapbook, out of print.