PositiveLibrary Journal... an unusual collection of poetry ... few poets have written so candidly about marriage, the approach of middle age, and the complexities of raising children ... Teicher has a remarkable gift for seizing upon and distilling material that should be banal, so that his best poems feel both new and inevitable ... An understated, subtle dissertation on contemporary middle-class life in verse, and a fine introduction to a rising poet.
Jim Harrison
RaveLibrary JournalHarrison belonged to the honorable American tradition of tale-teller rather than intellectual laborer; his poems, while they don’t spin the narratives his novels and novellas do, share with them a deep grounding in landscape and geography. Harrison did not quite have the flawless ear of his hero James Wright, and his lines move along with a certain prosiness, but he had wit and feeling, plus a good eye ... In a collection that spans decades of living and writing, there are poems of every character, many of them superb ... This immense volume will bring great pleasure to readers of James Wright and John Haines and may be the perfect lure for ardent readers of Harrison’s fiction; they will find many poems to cherish.
Arthur Sze
RaveLibrary JournalIt is not easy to come to terms with a collection on this scale—it encompasses ten collections, plus new uncollected poems, and clocks in at over 500 pages—but if any living American poet merits the attention proper to a career retrospective, it is National Book Award–winning Sze ... A monumental collection from a poet whose lasting importance should now be recognized; essential for dedicated readers of contemporary American poetry.
Andrei Codrescu
PositiveThe Library JournalThis latest collection reads almost like a poet’s journal from the years 2016–18, and as one might expect of the founder of a journal called Exquisite Corpse, his verses revel in the erotic and morbid ... A grim but somehow salutary record of our moment from one of our truly distinctive poetic voices.
Ursula K Le Guin
RaveLibrary JournalAlthough Le Guin\'s work does not much resemble the jokey surrealism currently fashionable in poetry, she is excellent company, intelligent and frequently razor-sharp wise. She offers the testimony of a practiced writer with layered insights into old age, as too few have done before her, and we willingly follow her ... Le Guin\'s last completed collection should be accessible to a wide range of readers, including her fiction fans; her keen and eloquent style engages age, memory, nature, time, and perception.
