“Through [Hewett's] plainspoken language which is, at times, conversational and, at times, confessional we are reminded of our own desires, those things for which we do still burn.”
—Cleaver
“The poems are complex, yet simple, resisting efforts at reductionist understandings of what comprises a man.”
—Signature
“[Blindsight] as a whole is full of wonderfully quiet musings on vision and memory, cogent observations about longing and loss.”
—Lambda Literary Review
“Hewett is a poet desperate to know—that ‘knowledge’ is never cheap and always comes at great cost is of no importance, because if anything this poet mistrusts simple vision. He aims deeper, darker. The stakes are high for this poet and his gamble pays off stunningly.”
—Kazim Ali
“I was utterly blindsided by Blindsight, so aurally and intellectually seduced by its prime and primal rhythms and organization that I was unprepared for the ferocity of its content, the ‘divine funk’ of its spiraling queer-otics, the shattered mending of its desirousness, and the profundity of its vision of losing vision.”
—Diane Seuss
“In a collection rich with lyric assurance and generosity of spirit, Hewett riffs on music theory, classic movies and texts, porn, the power of place, and loss and desire, past and present. Leading us into ever-greater clarity and compassion.”
—David Groff
“Greg Hewett’s poems embody astonishingly precise awareness. I cannot think of another poet who enters memory with such visionary suspicion, such delight.”
—Joseph Lease
