
Cover by Allison Spicer |
Graft
Brian Henry
$14.00 Trade Paper
ISBN: 1-930974-32-9
ISBN-13: 978-1-930974-32-6
Publication Date: Fall 2003
A Green Rose Selection
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honor and admire these poems for their groundwork understanding. Here,
oppression is shown forth as a condition of language, a violence of syntax.
And here, in resistance to oppression, extraordinariness lifts a beautiful,
if harried, affirming sound. With signal integrity, the poet exploits
no popular catastrophe but chooses, instead, to enter the mythic heart
of catastrophe, there to make new myths.
Donald Revell, citing Graft for the Poetry Society of Americas
2001 George Bogin Memorial Award
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