Poetry. Henriksen opens ORDINARY SUN by insisting that "an eye is not enough." Resisting solipsism, these poems negotiate that conflict between the mind and what exists outside the mind. Though pain intrinsically resides in that conflict Henriksen strives for an honest happiness, a kind of gorgeous suffering that blesses our days. To this end, these poems emerge from images of all those innumerable things that embody both visceral and ethereal beauty—rocks, trees, broken glass, baseball, angels.... Here we find immediacy immersed in the image, and in the reading of these poems becomes ourselves immersed in the immediate.

Ordinary Sun

Literature & Fiction

Henriksen, Matthew

History & Criticism

Black Ocean

William Heyen :: Lord Dragonfly originally published in 1981 by Vanguard Press. reissued 2010 by H_NGM_N BKS. The full text of the original volume including new notes by the author, a preface by series editor Nate Pritts &amp; a critical appreciation by Matthew Henriksen.

Lord Dragonfly: Five Sequences

Heyen, William

Poetry

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Poetry. A girl laughs like the birds and rides a bicycle into "horizons sinking slowly on their centers," despite—or in spite of the—the chaos around her. In Matt Henriken's stirring follow-up to his debut, ORDINARY SUN, he writes with an uninhibited resolve to explore intimate, everyday struggles and capture their reality in amber. Brokenness, anger, and the light of innocence power the poems of THE ABSENCE OF KNOWING. Meanwhile, a new beginning is captured in raw, smoldering, and cathartic expression, leaving an aftermath of aria despite discordant events.

The Absence of Knowing

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