Tell Me Again how the White Heron Rises and Flies Across the Nacreous River at Twilight Toward the Distant Islands

For at least two decades Hayden Carruth has been a poet of the first quality... a writer so well endowed with character, courage, stamina, honesty, and independence as to make whatever styles he has adopted or adapted peculiarly his own.' -R.W. Flint, Parnassus