Poetry. "In this deft and soulful collection, Barry Ballard writes with a sculptor's care, a sense of each line as a palpable, meaningfully weighted and invited, marked by imaginative wit, beautiful in itself, and essential to the visionary whole."—Bruce Bond, American Literary Review
"As a maker of sonnets, Barry Ballard has few contemporary peers.The clarity of voice and the authority of moment and, above all, the surety of control place him solidly among the few of this new century who know that form and feeling are important and that it does take both to write good poetry."—Jim Barnes, Chariton Review