Radcliffe Squires: Selected Poems 1950-1985: Centennial Edition

"An evocative poet, so good at his best that no one interested in poetry today should be ignorant of his work." --Anne Stevenson, Contemporary Poets of the English Language

"...I feel that Squires deserves consideration as one of the finest American poets writing today. ..one experiences a sense of excitement mixed with awe that one rarely gets with contemporary poetry." --Dana Gioia, Hudson Review

"... A great and extraordinary strength of Radcliffe Squires' poetry is the force and cogency of its design, concretely realized, poem by poem..."
-- Brewster Ghiselin, The Sewanee Review

"... poems that are powerfully evocative ...a struggle for knowledge and insight in a world often mysteriously cruel... many of his best poems are unassumingly personal..."
--David Mason, Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry

"It is as though Mr. Squires had simply turned a corner in his mind and beheld an entirely new, more beautiful, and infinitely profounder field of interest..."
-- James Dickey, The New York Times Book Review

"...he brings us to....the hidden spring of life. Thus he confounds our thoughtlessly held distinctions between life and death, spirit and matter."
-Emily Grosholz, New England Review

"I venture the guess that many of these poems must endure as long as English poems are read... when the time has had a chance to sift the chaff from the cliques Radcliffe Squires will come to be recognized as one of the most valid singers of life now at work among us."
--John Ciardi, The Western Humanities Review