"Tina Barry’s astonishing
I Tell Henrietta explores thresholds between the dream world and wakefulness, and between poetry and prose." Mary Biddinger
"Line up the poems in Barry's I Tell Henrietta on the bar and take them like shots ... without any chaser."
Joshua Davis
" ... Barry's stories are soft explosions of beautiful imagery and language and heart...a journey you'll be glad you have taken. "
Francine Witte
I Tell Henrietta
"Vividly unclassifiable," Nathan Leslie
" ... part poetry, part micro, these written gems .... are suffused with astute observation, memory and crystalline imagery. Barry's
collection is a must read..."
Nathan Leslie
"I Tell Henrietta is a meticulously observed and lyrical work that evokes the mysteries of the mid-20th-century adult world through a child's eyes and those of the woman she becomes, rendering the resonant moments that stay with us as we grow older in a diary-like series of observations and adventures that the speaker shares with her closest confidante."
Anne Pyburn Craig
BlueStone Press, 8/16/24