The Stripping Point
Brian Henry
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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.
Brian Henry is the author of seven books of poetry, including Lessness (Ahsahta Press, 2011) 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.
The Stripping Point
Brian Henry
$20; 134 pages
ISBN 978-1933996-01-1
Purchase print copies here, or write to counterpath@gmail.com.