Paces the Cage

Interspersed with ambient sound, lighting and stage directions, Henry-Smith's poems read as an improvised performance fusing the literal and metaphorical

S*an D. Henry-Smith's second full-length book of poems, Paces the Cage, lifts off from their previous book by expanding an already-queered language to near breaking point. Through the complexities of Henry-Smith's personal experiences and the use of a poetically fragmented voice, the literal and metaphorical are remixed in real time. Henry-...