American Incident

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Brian Henry American Incident
Search for a word or phrase in this book … Biographical note: Brian Henry is the author of two previous books of poetry: Astronaut, which was shortlisted for the 2000 Forward Prize, and Graft. He has edited the internationally acclaimed magazine Verse since 1995, and he founded Verse Press in 2000. He is also a widely published critic and a former Fulbright Scholar in Australia. He teaches in the English Department at the University of Georgia, where he also directs the creative writing program. BIC Basic EAN13: 9781876857523 ISBN-10: 1876857528 ISBN-13: 9781876857523 Author: Brian Henry Title: American Incident Series: Salt Modern Poets Product class: BC Language: eng Audience: General/trade BIC subject category: CTCH1 Publisher: Salt Publishing Pub date: 15-Nov-02 Extent: 172pp Height: 216 mm Width: 140 mm Thickness: 10 mm Weight: 258 gms Supplier: Gardners Books Supplier: Ingram Book Group Supplier: Inbooks (James Bennett) Availability: IP Price: GBP 11.99 Price: USD 17.95 Rights: World	See larger image PAPERBACK 20% off at the UK Bookstore! ~~£11.99~~ £9.59 20% off at the US Bookstore! ~~$17.95~~ $14.36	Short description/annotation: Composed of a scattered novella (“Patricide in C Minor”), a performance text (“Resistance”), lyric poems, anti-lyrics, verse essays, prose poems and their de-formed counterparts, short fictions, hybrids, parodies, dramatic monologues, and works less amenable to classification, American Incident revels in polyphony and political disquiet. Main description: Table of contents: Barely Wept Marginalia Pariah Patricide in C Minor Patricide in C Minor Patricide in C Minor Am I Offended Patricide in C Minor Patricide in C Minor Patricide in C Minor That’s How I Spin Patricide in C Minor Beating Around the Bush Patricide in C Minor Historical (Abstracts in) Couplets Swarm Patricide in C Minor Patricide in C Minor Realism Patricide in C Minor Patricide in C Minor The Pyramid Patricide in C Minor Naturalism, or In the Cathedral of Decadence Patricide in C Minor Patricide in C Minor Fly Patrol Lap Toy Patricide in C Minor Against “Against Content” Resistance Patricide in C Minor Bulletin from the Cognoscenti of Fashion Patricide in C Minor Patricide in C Minor Instructions for Old Poets, or How to Become Laureate Patricide in C Minor Patricide in C Minor Intro to Lit Patricide in C Minor Patricide in C Minor Adorno on the Gold Coast Patricide in C Minor Inevitably, Perhaps Patricide in C Minor Patricide in C Minor The Invitation Leaving Leaving Behind Patricide in C Minor Exactly Like the Time Before Patricide in C Minor Less Boat Than Wave Patricide in C Minor Irksome Patricide in C Minor Patricide in C Minor Re: Serpents and Related Procedures Patricide in C Minor Patricide in C Minor Ode on the Road Twisted Chemistry Patricide in C Minor American Incident Patricide in C Minor Patricide in C Minor In the Interest of Precision In Prison A Man, His Dog, and Some Fish: An Aubade The Myrmecological Life As a Bug Preens Patricide in C Minor On the Receiving End Patricide in C Minor Abortive Effort To Boat Five Patricide in C Minor Patricide in C Minor Patricide in C Minor Part My Oatmeal Bath To Locate Art at Alba Thrift Patricide in C Minor Central Heating Meal Ticket Into the Afternoon ‘Not Very, Sir’ Patricide in C Minor Tears (for the Astronaut) Patricide in C Minor Tough Guy Patricide in C Minor Unclean Aubade Boil Vigorously Patricide in C Minor Still Life(less) With Tapeworm Liposuction Patricide in C Minor Society’s Way of Telling You To Act More Feminine Is the Constant Urge To Cross Your Legs Discrete Mathematics With a Certain Decorum In the Panopticon of the Barely Salaried Patricide in C Minor Patricide in C Minor Still Life With Duct Tape Landscape With Pitchfork Suburban Yuletide Patricide in C Minor Nile Patricide in C Minor A Piece of Bird Time’s Eunuch I Lost My Tooth on the Way to Plymouth (Rock) It’s Either Snowing Patricide in C Minor Patricide in C Minor Along the Perimeter Taking Lessons from the Stone Head Patricide in C Minor The Worse You Treat Him View excerpt as PDF: Click here to view a sample (80 KB) Excerpt from book: Adorno on the Gold Coast Who can blame the barometer for being called a gauche gauge which in any case is better than guage, or body thermometer oracle of the oral cavity that cannot stop your torso from wheezing in sync with the refrigerator set one notch below very very cold as the crimson rosella seems to have recovered from its defenestrating flight & tottered sous la guage affixed to the garage next door & you just don’t know how to pick through what was discovered the year after the war the one with more casualties than the one before or how to deliver O2 to your lungs as they collapse slowly inside you & the facts wander across the screen some punk stole in your sleep the week you lost your keys & the bird shakes itself into the air to struggle in silence for a limb that is not there Review quote: 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 intractibility 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 Review quote: This capacious third volume from a much-remarked young poet-critic offers versatility, up-to-the-minute references, and edgy verbal fireworks framed by a remarkable range of forms.… The volume represents an advance on Henry’s previous poetry not only in its startling quantity, but also in its quality: it will match, and perhaps extend, his growing transatlantic reputation. Publishers Weekly Review quote: Henry’s wildly comprehensive lexicon and stylistic bag of tricks take us traveling through traditional and experimental poetic worlds.… Few poems today induce aesthetic delirium and delight like Henry’s best. Christine Hume American Letters & Commentary Review quote: The real subject of Amercan Incident is violence—familial, political, and especially sexual. the idea of violence, threats of violence, and acts of violence run through virtually all the selections here, but are nowhere more obvious than in “Patricide in C Minor,” where that violence extends to the text in ways perhaps more unsettling to readerly expectations than descriptions of broken bodies. Joshua Harmon West Branch Review quote: Henry is a keen observer who writes from a constantly changing perspective, often employing the techniques of montage and catalogue and typically eschewing a fixed point of view. Philip Nikolayev Jacket Magazine