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Brian Henry is a poet, translator, and editor. He earned his MFA from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He has since written ten collections of poetry and translated Tomaž Ŝalamun’s Woods and Chalices (2008) and Aleš Ŝteger’s The Book of Things (2010), which won the 2011 Best Translated Book Award for Poetry. Henry’s translation of Aleš Debeljak’s Smugglers was published by BOA Editions in 2015 and received a Howard Foundation Fellowship. He has received fellowships for translation from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Program. He teaches at the University of Richmond.

Books by Brian Henry

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Derrick Austin

Derrick Austin is the author of three poetry collections including This Elegance (Boa Editions, 2026), Tenderness (Boa Editions, 2021), winner of the 2020 Isabella…

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Boa Classic Book Bundle

With this one-time purchase you will receive a box of 5 best-selling titles from Boa with a few goodies from the publisher (broadsides, bookmarks,…

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Subscribe and save on all forthcoming Boa titles within the calendar year! At the start of each season (every 6 months), subscribers will receive…

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My House Gathers Desires

Adam McOmber’s lush, hallucinatory stories are both familiar and wholly original. Drawn from the historical record, Biblical lore, fairy tales, science fiction, and nightmares, these offbeat…

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Blood on the Leaves

Blood on the Leaves by Hope Wabuke is a searing and lyrical poetry collection that explores the intimate, haunted relationship between Blackness and the natural…

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Breaking the Alabaster Jar: Conversations with Li-Young Lee

Signed copies available in limited quantities The interviews with major award-winning poet Li-Young Lee in Breaking the Alabaster Jar offer access to the poet's…

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Bell 8

"A sad soul, sometimes, but a good soul, modest and generous, has written this book, and sensitively inhabits it. . . . his singing…

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Nomina

Nomina is a book of sonnets, most adhering to a traditional Petrarchan rhyme scheme. Far from a tidy closed form, Volkman's sonnets are volatile,…

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The Hiddenness of the World: Poems

"The title of Martin's book-La Dérobée du Monde-offers a clue, albeit an ambivalent one. I found his use of the word 'dérobée' virtually untranslatable,…

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