Reviews of Radiant Lyre

“The essays are eminently readable, foregoing critical theory in favor of a deep engagement with poetics….poetry readers should find the book wonderfully engaging, enlightening, and at times, lyrical.” —Publishers Weekly

“Writerly know-how that brings poems back to their lyrical roots in music and genre so that readers even of familiar poems will hear a voice that calls them to something beyond and yet still intimate to themselves.” —The Bloomsbury Review

“Radiant Lyre refreshes and deepens our reading of lyric poetry. It illuminates poetic thinking. It is a rare critical book—at once artful, pragmatic, and radiant.” —Edward Hirsch

“[Radiant Lyre] is a book of happy immediacy—as if these seven poets decided to put on a pot of coffee and stay up talking, with much knowledge and enthusiasm, about poems all night.” —Susan Stewart

“Excellent anthology of essays on the lyric.” —Dimitrios Kalantzis, American Book Review