Gigi Marks
"The more I read these, the closer I feel
to their speaker, which is to say, to myself."
-Julie Carr
Joanne Diaz
"The risks Diaz takes in this beautiful first book
are the profound risks of art and of love"
-Gail Mazur.
Charles Goodrich
"Goodrich's garden is a teaming, treacherous terrain
of great peril, and even greater earthy delights."
-Gary Young
Eric Gudas
"This book is full of terrific, distinctive poems,
and you will love it. It's that simple"
-Tony Hoagland
Ralph Salisbury
"Salisbury's memorable poetry reflects not only his long full life and the Cherokee culture
that has helped shape his vision, it is also a corrective lens
through which we may view anew the story of our American nation."
-Joseph Bruchac
Joel Friederich
"...transmute[s] everyday grief into a meaningful grace."
-Kellie Wells
Paul Hunter
"...looks back to a rural world of outhouses, cash crops, 4-H piglets,
suicide knobs, the top-rail of the fence beside the barn, and above all,
to the families who gave themselves without question to that world."
-Maurice Manning
Daneen Wardrop
"...reading these poems changes the way your mind hears words..."
-Jean Valentine
Paul Hunter
"Hunter's call and recall of an unmechanized world is visionary and realistic."
-Marie Ponsot
Kurt S. Olsson
"Olsson's supreme gift lies in his ability to astonish the reader
even as he opens our minds to the state of our own fragile humanity."
-Judith Skillman
Bruce Bond
"Silverfish has reopened the door to THE ANTEROOM OF PARADISE,
and I hope others will enter it to witness and delight in the evolving gifts
of one of our finest poets."
-B. H. Fairchild
Judith Skillman
"...a poet who knows every trick in the book
yet never lets on that she's doing anything other than saying
what's in her heart and now yours as well"
--David Kirby
Sleeping Upside Down
Kate Lynn Hibbard
"What a debut. It was a gift to have read this wonderful book."
-Garrett Hongo
Mark Conway
"...laconic but passionate, attentive to the profane as well as the Biblical,
always completely serious and never merely solemn."
-Robert Pinsky
Audrey Bohanan
"LIME is a singular, beautiful book."
--Mark Doty
Judith Skillman
"Judith Skillman's are dramatic poems, whose power derives from the play of opposing tensions."
--William Dunlop.
James Hoch
"Unlike most first books, experience drives Hoch's poems."
-Michael Collier
Paul Hunter
"These poems eloquently evoke the smell and feel of earth."
-John Ashbery
Thorpe Moeckel
"...he shows us that language is capable of a more expressive response to these things
than most of us ever thought possible."
-David Young
Judith Skillman
"I always learn something rare and mysterious about language
and the layered world when I read Judith Skillman."
--Bart Baxter
Jessica Greenbaum
"A sinewy, vividly intelligent humanity gives to this collection its memorable voice."
-George Steiner
Clemens Starck
What began as a whim, learning the Russian language,
became an obsession for Clemens Starck,
a process by which to fathom a baffling nation.
Ann Townsend
"She is an intoxicating poet."
-Carol Muske
Shulamith Wechter Caine
"...she brings a wise restraint, a knowing eye, the composure of an achieved artistry
and an uncorrupted heart."
-Eleanor Wilner
Gary Young
"DAYS is one of those rare books that I will keep beside my bed table for years to come"
--Jay Parini.