Pssst….I got a book you might be interested in. Hot stuff!

I don't necessarily relish this part of the process, but I suppose it must be done…. and now that the book is actually available (Yeeeehaw!!!)… here goes….

Hi there.  Would you like to buy a copy of my book?!  Learn more about it and/or buy it here. Or buy it via Amazon. Or via SPD. You can even get it as an Ebook for your Nook or Kindle.  And don't forget to "Like" it on Facebook so you can keep up on reviews, news, readings, etc. THANKS!

Here's what's being said about it:

"If I were to reduce this book to a single letter, it would be O. Opulence, obsession, orgasm and opera all start with an open throat, a gape, a release of pent-up desire. So, too, does Christopher Hennessy's Love-In-Idleness emanate from the opening of the throat to the shudder and release of the last and final word. Oh, I thought, reading these urgent, physical, dangerously beautiful poems, with 'the terror ripping open my mouth at the corners'. Yes, and Oh, yes and O…"

—D. A. POWELL

"Christopher Hennessy's poems yearn for a sense of certainty, feel their way for a foothold that, ultimately, may not be there. From childhood poems of family and farm (as unsettling, in their vivid realism, as Roethke's greenhouse poems) to persona poems of deep erotic longing, Hennessy maintains an artful and risky determination, in each poem, 'to understand the need its song speaks.'"

—DAVID TRINIDAD

"Christopher Hennessy gets the rhythm right, the timbre right, and the heart-sense right. Every detail is in place, and the whole ensemble sings. There's hard labor behind these poems—in Oscar Wilde's sense, and in Emily Dickinson's. (Did Emily talk about hard labor? Indirectly, yes.) Wise about words and about the world, Hennessy's poems cut no corners, though they are full of the melancholy wisdom that hides in coverts, closets, hope-chests, crevices, and other concealed places. I praise Hennessy's talent, his ardor-packed process, and the shapeliness of the results."

—WAYNE KOESTENBAUM

"Love-in-Idleness is made up of muscular poems in which nouns and adjectives, verbs and adverbs truly pull their weight. Hennessy is a wordsmith if ever there was one. Line endings, too, often surprise and delight (Aunt Bert shuffles around the sun/porch in a pink and yellow apron). These are lyric narratives that engage and move us. [This] collection is layered, multi-dimensional, and impressive for its technical virtuosity and passion."

—MARTHA RHODES