Title: Embarrassing Incident
Product review: If you're not interested in poetry so much as what poetry might be for, then welcome to Mr Henry's airless classroom of poetic "technique". There's some good--not great--writing here and the references and bag o'tricks on display leave no doubt that Mr Henry was always at the head of his class (which is their intention, no doubt). You don't get too far into the book without realizing that the desperate alterations of voice and register are not "signs of a restless and probing poetic intelligence" (the typical explanation offered for such pointless post-modern kerfuffelry) so much as an attempt to hide these poem's essential hollowness. Anyhow, the beat goes on. There are undoubtedly nine or ten people who read this and are sure Henry's a genius.
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