These poems from The Passion of Signs were later included in Love Makes Thinking Dark, published by United Artists Books in 1995.

The Passion of Signs

Some of these poems first appeared in Downtown Brooklyn and The World. The Grasshoppers Flee Stripping All Vegetation has been translated into Ukranian and is included as a part of Virlana Tzach's Yara's Forest Song which was performed in the Ukraine and at LaMama in New York in 1994.

The Passion of Signs is also the title of a suite of silver point drawings by Georgia Marsh, exhibited at the Betsy Senior Gallery in New York City in Fall 1994.

Review

A beautifully evocative collection of lyrical insights on love, and the social and historical framework in which it struggles to happen. These precise, well-wrought poems understand that formal innovation is never more than a function of insight–these are the sort of poems that could only arise from a life intensely felt and understood. Henning knows a great deal about the negotiations that make love possible, or make it fail, and she knows that the most evocative poetry is often that which lives closest to our own particularities.
—Mark Wallace, Taproot Reviews #7/8, 1996

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