Hank Buchmann

Benchmarks Hank Buchmann

Poetry is the language of and for the soul. Here, in E. Hank Buchmann's second collection of verse, comes Benchmarks, a small bittersweet reminiscence of the year 2020, relevant today as a reflection on one of the most upside-down years in our history, as well as a chronicle to Buchmann's personal trials and joys that will hold up across the pages of time. As an award-winning poet, Buchmann's words cut deep into the affections and struggles of everyday people, weaving craftily the country he loves into a colorful backdrop of varying landscapes. Considered a storyteller, akin to a traveling minstrel, Buchmann's first poetry collection, Natives of Lost Places, was seen as an autobiography in verse, and here, in Benchmarks, that theme continues.