Publishers Weekly:

"By turns ironic and deadly serious, toxic and mysterious. . . . A poet to watch." [full review]

Praise for Graft:

"Brian Henry . . . entices the reader into the hidden crevices and empty spaces of daily existence."
—Elizabeth Eger, PN Review

"[Brian Henry] restlessly encircles his subject, studying what it means to be 'at another's mercy,' exploring desire, obsession, ambivalence and heartbreak."
—Carmela Ciuraru, The New York Times Book Review

"In these densely dynamic lines, creation, demonic, screams itself out in rage. . . . Instead of reanimating American English, the book forsakes it both from inside and at the outer edges, quite as if the icy hand of cosmic space had finally grabbed the confident, swaggering thing by the genitals, declaring that the egoistic jig is up. . . . Graft runs exactly counter to the hot surfaces now so popular in the work of our younger poets; yet in its own way it irks, surprises, and provokes at almost every turn."
—Calvin Bedient, Boston Review

"Few poems today induce aesthetic delirium and delight like Henry's best."
—Christine Hume, American Letters & Commentary

"Henry is a keen observer who writes from a constantly changing perspective, often employing the techniques of montage and catalogue and typically eschewing a fixed point of view."
—Philip Nikolayev, Jacket