Love Makes Thinking Dark

Author: Barbara Henning

Publisher: United Artists Books (1995)

The first full-length collection of poems by the editor of Long News: In the Short Century (a journal of writing and art). Her poetry, fiction and critical writing has been published in numerous magazines, including Fiction International, The Worldand The Poetry Project Newsletter. A book of prose poems, Smoking in the Twilight Bar, was published by United Artists Books in 1984.

"Barbara Henning's deep and quirky knowledge of the human soul-especially woman's soul-brings us to a simultaneous exploration of the outside and the inside, Self and Other: the macrocosm and microcosm of the alchemists. She takes us far, and so skillfully that we are glad to let her do it."

—Diane di Prima