Reviews of In the Middle Distance

“[Gregg’s] poetry breaks and devours comforting sentiments, soothing language, elevated humbug, wishful thinking. . . . [Her poetry] menaces or devours not flesh and blood but cozy preconceptions.”—The Washington Post

“Passion and strife come together in In the Middle Distance.” –NPR

“This is a powerful account of facing later life on one’s own.” —✩Publishers Weekly

“These poems prove that the pain of loss and disorientation, along with the resilience that can be derived from hope, allows for a moment’s serenity. We can hardly ask more. Gregg is one of the more impressive, generous, and wise of today’s front-line poets.”—Library Journal

“In the gorgeous and conflicted middle distance of Gregg’s poems, “the sun…is always going down,” and the speaker is walking and thinking of love and solitude and silence, leaving the reader to lavish in the charged intimacies of the moment.”—Boston Review

“Spare and penetrated by head-clearing light.”—Harvard Review

“In the Middle Distance affords the reader a goodly vista, both into the landscape of the poems and into the transformative desires of the speaker.” —Pleiades

“Reading these well-crafted and highly wrought poems, I found myself made wistful by the sensibility itself—romantic, classical—having survived our ironic age.” —Antioch Review

“This is an intriguing and original kind of poetry.” —Janet McCann, Magill’s Literary Annual