Poetry. "I honor and admire these poems for their groundwork understanding.Here, oppression is shown forth as a condition of language, a violence of syntax. And here, in resistance to oppression, extraordinariness lifts a beautiful, if harried, affirming sound. With signal integrity, the poet exploits no popular catastrophe but chooses, instead, to enter the mythic heart of catastrophe, there to make new myths" Donald Revell."
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Brian Henry is the author of seven books of poetry, including LESSNESS (Ahsahta Press, 2011), THE STRIPPING POINT (Counterpath Press, 2007), and QUARANTINE (Ahsahta Press, 2006). His translation of the Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun's Woods and Chalices appeared from Harcourt in 2008, and his translation of Ales Steger's The Book of Things appeared from BOA Editions in 2010.
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