Odd Evening

In his first full-length collection in 10 years, Eric McHenry brings fresh attention to his old obsessions - love, laughter, justice, transience, how humility ennobles, how time makes the familiar strange, and how our scars make us beautiful. McHenry can dazzle with his technical dexterity, but his poems aren't merely performances; in Odd Evening, music creates meaning and vice versa. If books of poetry have patron saints, Buster Keaton might be this one' a stoic, stone-faced every person who's endlessly resourceful in the face of calamity.