Education
Henry completed a Bachelor at the College of William and Mary and an Master of Fine Arts Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
(Poetry. In LESSNESS everything is in ruins--machines, lan...)
Poetry. In LESSNESS everything is in ruins--machines, landscapes, buildings, bodies, histories, language. In terse elegies and effaced text, Lessness forces us to question the body, and through it the stability of the knowable. All builds toward a lengthy, strangely gentle "wreckage," where the surrender to inevitable infestations does not negate small triumphs.
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(Poetry. "Brian Henry...entices the reader into the hidden...)
Poetry. "Brian Henry...entices the reader into the hidden crevices and empty spaces of daily existence."—Elizabeth Eger, PN Review (UK) "Henry is a keen observer who writes from a constantly changing perspective...."—Philip Nikolayev, Jacket
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(Brian Henry's "Wings Without Birds" makes the everyday a ...)
Brian Henry's "Wings Without Birds" makes the everyday a site for innovation and investigation. Although diverse in form, these poems continually return to explorations of family, time, selfhood, and physical space. Moving through marriage and parenthood, the house and the backyard, Henry's poems consider ways of being simultaneously singular and plural.
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(Poetry. In THE STRIPPING POINT Brian Henry moves through ...)
Poetry. In THE STRIPPING POINT Brian Henry moves through extremes of formal invention and referentiality in two poetic series immersed in the lust and language of the everyday. Set at a paper mill in the 1990s, "More Dangerous Than Dying" charts the vicissitudes of a relationship that is simultaneously new and at its depleted end. In "The Stripping Point," language confronts and interleaves desire, enacting the dissipation of both as the poem is "stripped" as it progresses. Once again, Brian Henry raises the stakes for contemporary poetry.
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(Poetry. QUARANTINE is a book-length poem narrated by a ma...)
Poetry. QUARANTINE is a book-length poem narrated by a man dying of the bubonic plague. Set outside London during the summer of 1665, the poem explores issues of sexuality and subjectivity while narrating a life within death. The narrative accumulates via accretion and contradiction, complicating the narrator's attempts to truthfully describe his life, and therefore complicating the narrative itself. QUARANTINE is the fourth book by Henry and won the 2003 Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America. His previous titles include AMERICAN INCIDENT and GRAFT. Henry teaches at the University of Richmond.
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Henry completed a Bachelor at the College of William and Mary and an Master of Fine Arts Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
He lives in Richmond, Virginia. Henry has published poetry in magazines including American Poetry Review, The Paris Review, Boston Review and Virginia Quarterly Review and his work has been translated into Russian, Croatian, Serbian, and Slovenian. Henry"s poetry criticism has appeared in the publications including New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, and The Yale Review.
His essays have been reprinted in such books as Imagining Australia (Harvard University Press).
Henry has translated Woods and Chalices (Harcourt, 2008) by the Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun and The Book of Things (BOA Editions, 2010) by the Slovenian poet Aleš Šteger. Henry has taught at Plymouth State College and the University of Georgia.
He currently teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Richmond.
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(Poetry. In LESSNESS everything is in ruins--machines, lan...)
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