[See the broadside section for an excerpt from this volume]


"Alan Shapiro again dazzles us."
–Charlotte Observer

"Shapiro seeks what lies at the deepest level of the human heart."
–Chicago Tribune

"A profound meditation on the elusiveness of happiness."
–Philadelphia Inquirer

"Mingled joy and fear [are] captured unforgettably here. . . Shapiro's poetry is distinguished by how much human experience, from the most filigreed perception on down to the most animal drive, is given form."
–Tikkun