Freedom and Discipline: Hayden Carruth’s Blues

Brian Henry is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently Permanent State (Threadsuns Press, 2020), and the prose book Things Are Completely Simple: Poetry and Translation (Parlor Press, 2022). He has translated Tomaž Šalamun’s Woods and Chalices, Aleš Debeljak’s Smugglers, and six books by Aleš Šteger. His work has received numerous honors, including two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, a Howard Foundation fellowship, and the Best Translated Book Award.