On Nicole Walker

It is with genuinely boundless enthusiasm that I recommend Nicole Walker. As her dissertation director, I have had the opportunity to work closely with Walker in numerous venues over the past few years. She has ever proven to be a passionate and original reader of the canons of poetry, one whose energies extend beyond the page into the luminous intersections of Sight and Vision, Reading and Invention. She is a poet who stands on her own holy ground and sees through her own clear eyes.

Nicole Walker is also a poet of great lyric gifts. Over the years, she has acquired the quiet confidence necessary to profoundest play. Ludens and farbens overlap effortlessly in her words, and her most recent poems are capable of ethical profundity without the slightest didacticism. She is surely on track to being one of the memorable poets of her generation.

Nicole Walker has my full faith and confidence and admiration.

—Donald Revell, author of eight collections of poetry, most recently My Mojave. He is a Professor of English at the University of Utah.