HG Essays+Reviews

 Here is my review of a book of sounds , by Irish poet Billy Mills. https://henryghenrik.substack.com/p/peaceful-wonderment

I've created a Substack page for poetry reviews and other essays, called Mississippi Cicada .  Here is my  first post there, a book rev...

Note : This essay was included in a seminar, hosted by Norman Finkelstein, at the 2022 Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, on t...

Note : This essay was written as a submission for a seminar at the 2022 Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, hosted by Norman Fi...

Link to review of two books by Gabriel Gudding, first published in Critical Flame .

Link to a poetry book review of Stuart Blazer, first published in Critical Flame .

Link to a poetry book review of John Beer and Ben Mazer, first published in Critical Flame.

What follows has no footnotes, no scholarly apparatus. Just my own faulty memory and groundless, amateur speculations. * When did poet...

A review of Matthew Zapruder's book Why Poetry was published in Rain Taxi #89 (Spring 2018).  Here's a link to the issue's tab...

A review of Michael Robbins' Equipment for Living : on Poetry and Pop Music , published in Rain Taxi online edition, Winter 2017-2018

Wrote an article about a group of poets who call themselves the New Gnostics; it's been published in Coldfront magazine, here .

My review of Squeezed Light , by Lissa Wolsak.

I I have this animus against the "Conceptual Poetry" phenomenon.  It's not reasonable, it's not informed, it's jus...

Here's a link to my Critical Flame   review of Stolen Air - a book of versions/translations of Osip Mandelstam, by Christian Wiman.