"Snow has gradually been building a reputation as Rilke's nest contemporary translator in English . . . [His] work stands the highest test that can be put to any translation: it would be a worthy poetic achievement even without the original to prop it up."—Brian Philips, The New Republic

"Selected Poems includes over 100 poems, spanning the breadth of his distinguished career as a writer . . . Schuyler manages to be simultaneously particular and expansive, zooming in on the smallest detail and panning the big picture at the same time . . . His generous spirit and quirky humor are apparent throughout this collection."—Grace Bauer, formerly with New Orleans Public Library, Library Journal

"These poems are as beguiling and magisterial as anything the septuagenarian jet-setter has written. I can't decide whether Seidel has more in common with Philip Larkin or John Ashbery, but the fact that he can prompt such a bizarre question is more revealing than any possible answer."—Joel Brouwer, The New York Times Book Review

"Edward Snow is doing important work. Robert Lowell once wrote that it was hard to imagine Rilke first written in English, that the poems were sealed in German. Snow is unsealing them."—Robert Phillips, Houston Chronicle

"Allen Tate is the supreme classicist, the most convincingly grandiloquent orator, of his generation. The rhetoric of his monologues, analyzing the sublime decadence of the moral and political scene, is gloomy, scornful and yet icily aloof. The more philosophical poems tease the reader with ironies of existence and morality."—John Fuller, on the hardcover publication of Collected Poems 1919-1976 in 1977

"No poet rivals Mr. Walcott in humor, emotional depth, lavish inventiveness in language or in the ability to express the thoughts of his characters and compel the reader to follow the swift mutations of ideas and images in their minds . . . [His poetry] makes us realize that history, all of it, belongs to us."—The New York Times

“Wheeler’s poetry doesn’t shy from difficulty, complexity or confusion . . . Wheeler holds a door open for the jumble of history: Dutch painting and British theology room with old riddles and New York Times articles . . . Economics and emotion face each other across a charged field; stuff gathers in the middle, glittery as a sack of diamonds.”—Joshua Clover, The New York Times Book Review

"Mr. Williams has supremely invented his poet. As a few poets do, he has created a world: turbulent, craggy and sometimes didactic. And one in which, with a warily agile skip or two among boxcars, a reader can find an explorer's reward."—Richard Eder, The New York Times

"Wright's gifts for single long lines, simple description and lyrical sound effects are second to none; he is the recipient of almost every American poetry award, including the Pulitzer . . . The 69 poems here, not unlike most of his earlier work, show vistas from the Upper South and points of view derived from Taoism, but they share a self-limiting form that is fresh for Wright: each has only six lines . . . In these sestets great yearnings and brief descriptions collide, cancel or reinforce each other: 'The heart of the world lies open, leached and ticking with sunlight/ For just a minute or so,' says one poem. In another, 'The past is so dark, you need a flashlight to find your own shoes.' Mortality is omnipresent, but so is beauty, in and around Charlottesville (where Wright teaches), in our musical heritage, in the night sky. Wright's compression tries to see that every subject, every image, receives its due."—Publishers Weekly

"Not so long ago we had two incredible voices—Neruda and Milosz. Now we have Adam Zagajewski, who also speaks passionately from both the historical and the personal perspective, in poems reduced to a clean, lyrical clarity. In one poet's opinion (mine), he is now our greatest and truest representative, the most pertinent, impressive, meaningful poet of our time."—Mary Oliver