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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 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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Ernest Hilbert
"It takes a true artist, it takes someone who can make a poem of just a few lines wherein time pauses, and silences come out — and become visible, while 'the light is leaving and windows brighten / across the street.' Last One Out is a very beautiful book. It sings." — Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic and Dancing in Odessa
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William Baer
Praise for The Unfortunates: "The subjects of this astonishing portrait gallery of poems are profoundly unnerving, alarming, haunting, touching and distressing. This is one of the most deeply unsettling books of poetry I have read in a very long time. The dramas of these portraits are all the more powerful and disturbing by virtue of the quiet, understated terms in which they are composed." — Anthony Hecht
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Brian Brodeur
"Brian Brodeur’s new collection of poems, with its clarity of description, formal ingenuity, grammar of concision, and flexibility across the lines, has the kind of breadth contemporary readers of poetry should crave." — John Poch
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Juliana Gray
"Honeymoon Palsy throws one hell of a shindig. On the reception’s dance floor, you’ll find Claudius waltzing with Lizzie Borden, Hamlet jigging and ambling with Ophelia, and a wry 21st-century smirk in step with genuine grief. Here a wholly contemporary voice is wed to the stateliest and oldest forms of the tradition." — Dan Albergotti, author of Millennial Teeth
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Ernest Hilbert
WINNER OF THE 2017 POETS' PRIZE! "Caligulan delivers on all of its title's promise. Every poem evokes the world we live in: we know something is wrong and, in a minute, will likely be worse; but there's beauty in the portent and in the self-awareness we need to see it." — Erica Dawson
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Ned Balbo
"In his fourth book of poetry, Ned Balbo finds bits of the true history of our time in what we thoughtlessly discard: comic books, old postcards, stories torn out of yellowed newspapers, decayed superheroes — even 'a timepiece not yet obsolete.' The elegant poems he makes from these discards offer us a way of navigating and celebrating the contradictions of our time. It should come as no surprise that in the title poem, this skillful formalist reveals himself as a true heir of Paumanok’s great bard." —Charles Martin
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Erica Dawson
WINNER OF THE 2016 POETS' PRIZE! "... Her words never subside into shopworn sounds, each poem displaying her rare and enviable genius for making verse sing, which is to say croon, caterwaul, belt, syncopate, wail." — David Yezzi