On Jay Leeming

Jay Leeming is the most brilliant of the younger poets that I have read lately. He is a high-stepper, and he risks a lot with each brief line. He is not one of those who puts down the name of his laundromat and everything that has happened to him since he was six years old. He doesn't try to make you feel close to him. He simply embarks on a thought. This little poem will eventually become famous like some of the tiny poems of e.e. cummings. So this man has a lot of ability. His wit does not prevent him from writing things that move the reader. His language is clean and swift, and I recommend him without any reservation.

—Robert Bly, author of a number of books of poems, including Morning Poems and most recently, The Night Abraham Called to the Stars.