Thank you so much for sharing! 🙏✨

It was so wonderful to meet you in person! Big fan of your poetry — I wish we could have talked more as well! It was a busy and talkative day for sure!

Thank you so very much! I absolutely loved reading this review! 🙏

Wow, wow, wow! Susan, this is such a beautifully written review of my book! You’ve captured its essence and intent so wonderfully—thank you so, so much! 🤩✨

Thank you so much, Donna!! It was amazing to meet you! 🙏✨

It was so wonderful to meet you as well! 🙏✨

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Siken is such a titan in modern American poetics—approaching him about a blurb seemed, far-and-away, a longshot for me. But I’m glad I asked. Shortly after sending him an email, he responded to me with such sincerity. And I am so incredibly honored with these gracious words he shared about my book

Siken’s prose poems are keenly crafted, expertly honed. And the thematic weaving and narrative arc of this new collection! It is his best book yet. [...]

When I encountered poems from his third book, I Do Know Some Things, I was delighted that they were these incredible prose poems! A poetry form I so strongly advocate for, that has shaped and reshaped my own development as a poet. [...]

Plus, there was Siken’s commitment to poetry as an artform beyond his own, establishing Spork Press and Sporklet to publish other poets. And then there’s his beautiful paintings! [...]

I revisited his books after Spit came out, and I considered and reconsidered what my Art had progressed into, informed by Richard Siken’s attention to form, to voice, and to image. [...]

The attention to each book as a self-contained artifact that exists separate from the book that preceded it offered me an avenue—a guidebook—into writing beyond a previous book. [...]

Then there’s his second book, War of the Foxes, which is entirely different in its thematic concerns and poetic approach. Another captivating book! One I find myself continually revisiting and learning from. [...]

His first poetry book, Crush, is one of the most influential books about panic and obsession I’ve ever encountered. The first time I read it? I couldn’t put it down. Same for the second time reading it, and the third and fourth. [...]

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