“[Hull’s] passion and her power to depict emotional extremes, justifies the high regard in which she is held.”—✩Publishers Weekly

“Hull blends the elegiac and the sensuous into a proxy nostalgia so stylized it becomes ironic.”—Washington Post Book World, Poets Choice

“[Collected Poems] has much to teach us, especially at a time when irony and fantasy are the poetic flavors of choice.” —Believer

“Measured experience informs these poems, as Lynda Hull’s voice comes alive again and again, line to line and image to image…. Because Hull has troubled the waters, her poetry makes us truer to ourselves and those around us. Each image is a beam in a persistent searchlight that penetrates.”—Yusef Komunyakaa

“Lynda Hull (1954–1994) was perhaps the most intensely lyrical poet of her generation. Her charged, sensuous music—influenced by jazz and the densely wrought sonics of Hart Crane—is wedded to an indelible vision. In her broken, late-century American landscape of ruined cities, a desperate beauty flashes among the wreckage of individual lives.”—Mark Doty