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John Poch
. . . Like prayer ribbons, these compressed utterances are tied to that space between reading and writing, poet and poem, life and art, making up a “little book of criticism,” but criticism with an artist’s insight. . . .
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Adam Tavel
"His poems are musical and formally deft, and Adam Tavel makes of his own American life, and of the life of America, a portrait of itself the nation ought to see, especially now." — Robert Wrigley
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David Middleton
"Vibrating with the fathomless question of human being, these poems pay homage to all that mends our minds and souls as we wander the world, exiles of an ever-remembered Eden." — Joshua Hren
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David Yezzi
"Among the new poems in David Yezzi’s More Things in Heaven you will find some of his best poems, poems in which his vision — both deeply humane and restless — is expanded further and yet made more solid." --Shane McCrae
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Rachel Hadas
"Love and Dread is a poised and ecstatic book which watches the threshold in both directions." — Andrés Cerpa
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Matthew Buckley Smith
"...virtuosic formal facility, as well as the nimble elegance of his classically plain style...." – Brian Brodeur
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Adam Chiles
"A haunting elegy crafted out of the tangible world, these poems approach the precipice and turn the reader back towards life with the senses alight. Chiles is a lyric poet of subtle, mysterious gifts." —Dan O’Brien