Reviews of An Aquarium

“Here is a first book written from a very high floor of the Tower of Babel, and the view is exhilarating…Jeffrey Yang speaks in tongues as if touched with a Pentecostal flame.”

—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

“Yang’s debut is as full of surprises as it is full of fish....Those who read the collection quickly may find it witty but gimmicky; those who bring more attention will take more away from this rare first book that combines a simple theme (poems as sea life, the book as their tank) with clear, sharp thought at the level of sentence and line.”

—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“Jeffrey Yang’s witty, glitzy, erudite and musical icthyographic extravaganza is the best bestiary since Lawrence and the snazziest first book in years. A starfish is born!”

—ELIOT WEINBERGER

“An Aquarium is polished, intelligent, and, for all its erudition, readable.”

—CHRONOGRAM

“If you ever need to remember that we live in outer space and all that it implies, go look into an aquarium. Or read this fabulous book that wraps eco-history into alphabet and weapon development and marine movement and actually proves that they are cooperating in the construction of the monster planet that we inhabit. Thrilling, scientific, mystical, clear, hilarious, horrible—an “aquarium” in all its complexity: this very book.”

—FANNY HOWE

“In a learned and playful alphabet of ocean life (and a few other life forms), Jeffrey Yang brings us a gathering of information, philosophy, history, humor, wisdom, and poetry; lyric passages, passages of conscience, and the long shadow of prophecy. This is an essential aquarium.”

—JEAN VALENTINE

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