No Stranger Than My Own

Michael Henry's poems are a skilled, luminous negotiation with the surfaces of life and the shapes of memory. A supple writer, equally at home in elegiac as he is in lyric modes, he produces a beautiful fresh music by working the ground where tenderness and rigor meet. His poems, shot through with feeling and perfectly crafted, are as happy sounding the dark classical themes of poetry as they are finding the saving glisten of the everyday. --Eli Gottlieb, author of Now You See Him and The Boy Who Went Away