Brother No One by Brian Henry

Brother No One by Brian Henry

Written during the George W. Bush era, the poems in Brother No One take their bearings from our surveillance society, where no action or transaction goes unnoticed. Everything, from vacation spots to email messages to food choice, becomes part of the surveilled tableau, and the lines between victim, bystander, and perpetrator become blurred. The CIA regulates the sun's rising and setting, cameras lurk behind mirrors, and every human interaction becomes fodder for film. Brian Henry takes on these issues with dizzying energy, examining their effects on language, the body, perception, and the possibility of human love. Brother No One is searingly political, deeply personal, and wholly idiosyncratic.

[Brian Henry] offers a powerful re-calibration of the senses, shifting our attention beneath the surfaces and skins of things

Brian Henry is a U.S. poet, translator, editor, and critic. The author of nine books of poetry, he has received numerous honors for his work, including the Best Translated Book Award, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, a translation fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a grant from the Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has co-edited the journal Verse since 1995, and his criticism has appeared in such publications as the Times Literary Supplement and New York Times Book Review. He translated Woods and Chalices by Tomaž Šalamun and The Book of Things by Aleš Šteger.

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ISBN 13	9781844719181
ISBN 10	1844719189
Title	Brother No One
Author	Brian Henry
Series	Salt Modern Poets
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Salt Publishing
Year published	2013-01-15
Number of pages	84
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