Michael Henry’s poems are a skilled, luminous negotiation with the surfaces of life and the shapes of memory. His poems, shot through with feeling and perfectly crafted, are as happy sounding the dark classical themes of poetry as they are finding the saving glisten of the everyday.
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“Michael Henry has an unerring, delicious appetite for details. This is not mere nostalgia, but Henry’s profound engagement with the significance of the particulars, even the minutiae, of his country’s narrative, and of his family and their lost ones. He understands that in the act of writing we are always imperfect, only ‘using crude tools/to carry a message to those in the ether.”
—Gail Mazur, author of Zeppo’s First Wife
“This collection wanders an American landscape and an interior one iwht equal skill, the voice a witness without false promise. Go with Henry a while, and then, be grateful.”
—Chris Ransick, author of Asleep Beneath the Hill of Dreams
“Michael Henry’s poems are a skilled, luminous negotiation with the surfaces of life and the shapes of memory. His poems, shot through with feeling and perfectly crafted, are as happy sounding the dark classical themes of poetry as they are finding the saving glisten of the everyday.”
—Eli Gottlieb, author of Now You See Him