Arc International Poets This new collection of Brian Henry's once again displays his energetic command of, and delight in, language and syntax that brought him such acclaim for his earlier book.
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Arc International Poets This new collection of Brian Henry's once again displays his energetic command of, and delight in, language and syntax that brought him such acclaim for his earlier book.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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Near Fine. A Near Fine copy of the First Edition with newspaper clipping of review laid in loose. A nice, clean copy. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page: 'For Michael, / With all good wishes, / Brian Henry'. Tall 8vo. -over 7¾ in. -9¾ in. 'Verse magazine and Verse press co-editor Henry's two previous books, Astronaut and American Incident, appeared in the U.S. in 2002; each flaunted his skill with verbal disjunction and whimsical cut-up tales. This new book is a departure, having a single subject and a rigorously unified tone. The subject is sex, and the tone is dry, self-punishing and removed. The volume's first half offers a decidedly male perspective on heterosexual sex, from the heat of a first encounter to a long-renewed, occasionally embittered passion. 'Your legs will not spread wide enough/ to allow for the loosening, ' Henry says of one scene; another finds 'No part of her not shedding in my mouth. ' Self-abasement, disgust and highly conflicted poems about sex between men come to the fore in Part II. Though many stanzas can be direct, others inspire a bracing abstraction; sexual encounters and memories occur amid a riverine, chilly landscape, marked by oil drums, 'suffering' and 'real snow. ' The most discursive poems suggest the productive influence of Donald Revell; more lyrical segments, such as 'Another Cross, ' combine that influence with C.D. Wright. The last, perhaps best, poems move from 'thoughts uncertain of the effect/ they seek' to 'the pain/ of skin against skin. ' Henry asks elsewhere if writing about sex 'requires a constant/ violence against specifics/ as desire takes over the mind of the task? ' It is a question this volume seems designed to provoke. ' ~ Publisher's Weekly.