On Rodney Jack

Rodney Jack has mastered Dickinson's imperative: he tells the truth and tells it slant. His poems are marked by a welcome, persuasive, Classical restraint. The poet's sensibility, and the particulars of his autobiography, smoulder behind all his work, but his gifts for the telling detail, for a moving intimacy of tone, and for a syntax both suggestive and energetic, are reserved for looking out, at the baffling world.

—Ellen Bryant Voigt, author of six books of poetry, most recently Shadow of Heaven, as well as a collection of essays.