Poetry. " Reading AMERICAN INCIDENT is an exciting, deeply unsettling experience. Few poets have Brian Henry's eye and ear for the gridlock of everyday life in America today, where 'A warning light is flashing on the dashboard:/ we need tax relief now,' and the suburban front porch turns out to be the setting for the 'Patricide' series - paragraphs that use a whiplash effect to dramatize the intractability of our daily problems. But Henry's satiric thrust is by no means condescending: his malice is directed at himself as well as everyone else. AMERICAN INCIDENT is brilliant, funny, reckless: one of the best books of poetry I've come across in a long time" -Marjorie Perloff.

Author City: RICHMOND, VA USA

Brian Henry is the author of eight books of poetry, including DOPPELGÄNGER (Talisman House, Publishers, 2011), LESSNESS (Ahsahta Press, 2011), THE STRIPPING POINT (Counterpath Press, 2007), and QUARANTINE (Ahsahta Press, 2006). His translation of the Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun's Woods and Chalices appeared from Harcourt in 2008, and his translation of Aleš Šteger's The Book of Things appeared from BOA Editions in 2010 and won the 2011 Best Translated Book Award. Henry's poetry and translations have received numerous awards, including the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, the Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize, the Cecil B. Hemley Memorial Award, the Treci Trg Prize in Serbia, the George Bogin Memorial Award, a Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences grant, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Howard Foundation. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.