Remarkable… . What [these poems] are attempting is important: nothing less than the recovery for language of a whole domain of mute and familiar experience .–Hugh Kenner, The Los Angeles Times Book Review It is refreshing to find a poet who is intellectually interesting and technically first-rate. Robert Pinsky belongs to that rarest category of talents, a poet- critic .–Robert Lowell The pleasures of Pinsky … are the unfashionable, or at least the unfamiliar, ones of sanity, the cool entertainment of alternatives, and the conviction … that speech … is not only interesting but shares with both lyric and nonsense a certainty of resonance… .–Richard Howard, Poetry