Light in Dark Objects
Light in Dark Objects exposes inner life in a kiss or in the movement of water on the shore of a lake. The poems speak from our true homes hidden beneath the surface of the world we see, from that river of memories and absences that is the true heart of things.
Nerve Language
The new work centres on the Memoirs of Daniel Paul Schreber, perhaps the most written about of mental patients, as well as one of the most articulate. The Memoirs formed the basis of Freud’s theory of paranoia, the interpretation of which was a primary cause of the split between Jung and Freud, was the basis of Bleuler’s definition of schizophr …
Sharawadji
Brian Henderson has established himself as a poet who brilliantly makes us aware of language as an instrument of discovery. In his work we realize, over and over again, that each of the mind’s worlds speaks a secret language, which it is the poet’s task to discover and translate. In Sharawadji, this includes not only such worlds as those create …
Smoking Mirror
A selection of new prose poems based on the imagery of Aztec mythology and folklore, this collection is illustrated with reproductions of Aztec paintings and stone cuttings. A compelling work by the author of The Viridical Book of the Silent Planet, Migration of Light, The Expanding Room, and Paracelcus.
Year Zero
Year Zero is the time of hushed beginnings and endings, the place of naming and unnaming, where language, strange to itself, tiptoes along songlines as though following passages of Koto music. In Brian Henderson's poetry, poised and listening on this hinge of creativity, ontological wonder is informed by awareness of the paradoxes at the heart of l …
