“Reminiscent of Russell Edson, Grinwis creates a series of nearly bewildering yet engaging microcosms. . . . Grinwis manages, throughout, to build poems that are fun, disjunctive, and seem improvisatory, while also sturdy.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Grinwis’s poems end outside their circuitry in wonder, surprise, and non sequitir; their voltage is untenable.”
—Iowa Review
“[Grinwis’s] poems zing with surprise, with slantwise looks at the everyday that added up to something that read more like an image-drenched dream.”
—Valley Advocate
“Words are squeezed into usage that had no right to be there—nouns, verbs, who cares what they once were? There is something illuminating at the core of this book, something bright and burning we can carry with us wherever we go.”
—James Tate
“By turns definition, transformation, hermeneutics, these poems make me revisit the scenes of my worlds, doubled and forked.”
—Eleni Sikelianos, National Poetry Series Judge's Citation
“James Grinwis is a poet of felt imagination and originality. An exciting and utterly remarkable book.”
—Michael Burkard
