"When literary, cultural, and textual critics ignore the New Critics, they misconstrue their own genesis and identity." Mark Bauerlein • Chronicle of Higher Education

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"Hass's latest poems remind us that to be fully human is itself an act of political subversion." Cynthia Haven • San Francisco Magazine

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"If Alter's Psalms are not as beautiful as the King James Version, they do not have to be. His goal is not really to replace the texts we know but to estrange them." Adam Kirsch • The New Republic

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"Sometimes we live as if we know more about the experiences we don't have than about the experiences we do." Adam Phillips on Larkin • The Threepenny Review

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"Thanks to Ashbery, we see there's more in heaven and earth than is dreamt of in your sociology." Ange Mlinko • The Nation

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