Conveyances of the Poets is a new hybrid work by Bubba Henson that pairs more than fifty poets — from Basho and Sappho to Sylvia Plath, Langston Hughes, and Billy Collins — with their real or imagined conveyances, using each vehicle as a lens through which to illuminate the poet’s life, temperament, and art. The book braids research with flights of creative speculation, personal memoir, and invention, so that W.C. Williams gets a wheelbarrow, T.S. Eliot a beige Nissan Sentra with cloth seats, Ezra Pound an unwrapped Cybertruck (“fascist vehicle of choice”), and Emily Dickinson a Schwinn bicycle she never could have owned but surely deserved.
