“What's poetry, if it's worth its salt, / but a phrase men can pass from hand to mouth?”

"So what if a piece of wood discovers it’s a violin..." - Arthur Rimbaud

“Olds writes “poetry more faithful to the felt truth of reality than any prose could be.” – Richard Wakefield.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. - A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe

'this spiral / of making while unmaking while / the world goes round' -- Mary Jo Salter, 'Young Girl Peeling Apples'

"This is sanity speaking, with a mask of tragedy pulled up from its face. This is a stunning poet arguing with the failing authority of her culture, the whole Silk Road curled up and hissing by her feet." Valzhyna Mort

Poetry so unsettling, describing worlds so troubling and lonely, is seldom as funny, clever, and downright charming as Jane Yeh's. - Aingeal Clare