"Of Small Children
/ And Other Poor Swimmers is centered in the push-pull of place.
Hendrickson wants to leave behind his Florida childhood, where every memory is
still moist, but he continues ‘calling on the voices’ and crossing back, wading
into love, loss and danger with vivid imagery." -
Lauren Camp, author of
three collections of poetry, including One Hundred Hungers, and
winner of The Dorset Prize (Tupelo Press)
"Hendrickson's
literary prowess is plentiful, but what intrigues me most is how the collection
calls us to embrace, fully, what's most formidable (and most innocent) in our
own humanity. As if each shattering was merely a good throttle and every
devastation could blossom on chain link. The smallest moments of truth. The
largest. Line-break-grit / word-ache-gorgeous. How stark, how challenging and
awkward, how irresistible our foibles become when rendered by
Hendrickson!" -
Lisa Gill, recipient of an
NEA Fellowship in Poetry and author of five books, including Caput Nili and Red
as a Lotus
"Brian Hendrickson
demands the inclusion of the real press of the discursive and meditative into
his poems, by juxtaposing multiple levels of diction, and by frequently
shifting between the anecdotal, the essayistic, and the lyrical. Through his
careful use of these techniques, Hendrickson is able to achieve James Scully's
ideal of ‘audacious speaking’: he refuses to capitulate either to the lyrical
moment or the abstraction, and so his poetry exists and persists as an urgent
place for utterance of consciousness." - Don Winter, author of seven
collections of poetry, including Saturday Night Desperate
The Book
Release, Of Small Children / And Other Poor Swimmers: Poems by Brian
Hendrickson will be celebrated at Bookworks, 4022
Rio Grande Blvd NW,. on Wednesday, December 3rd at 7:00 PM
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