“Anyone eager for the performance of an adult, rich and animated intelligence will be grateful for Phillip Lopate’s display of personality and experience.” –New York Times Book Review

“Phillip Lopate may be an American ambassador of nonfiction, but he is also a youthful, taciturn, love-seeking New York poet, whose poems’ plainspoken, personal, darkly humorous quietly gather strength while confronting the beautiful and ugly in city life. I admire their vitality and honesty.” –Henri Cole