Doctor Jazz

Hayden Carruth, one of the most acclaimed poets of our age, lives his music-finding the perfect low tones of terrible loss and high riffs of family and friendship.

Carruth keeps getting better. -The New Yorker

Carruth’s new poems are, essentially, songs of praise and celebrations of beauty; for all the real anguish and pain they record, they remain enactments of a fundamental attitude of faith and wonder. -Times Literary Supplement (London)

The elegiac gravity of ‘Dearest M-,’ on a daughter’s death, refuses to release us until its final syllable. -Library Journal (starred review)