Freedom and Discipline: Hayden Carruth’s Blues

Brian Henry’s most recent book of poetry, Permanent State, was published by Threadsuns in 2020. He has translated Tomaž Šalamun’s Woods and Chalices (Harcourt, 2008), Aleš Debeljak’s Smugglers (BOA Editions, 2015), and Aleš Šteger’s Above the Sky Beneath the Earth (White Pine Press, 2019) and The Book of Things (BOA Editions, 2010), which won the Best Translated Book Award in Poetry. His numerous honors include the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, a Slovenian Academy of Arts and Sciences grant, and fellowships from the Howard Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.