Radcliffe Squires: Selected Poems 1950-1985: Centennial Edition

“An evocative poet, so good at his best that no one interested in poetry today should be ignorant of his work.” –-Anne Stevenson, Contemporary Poets of the English Language “…I feel that Squires deserves consideration as one of the finest American poets writing today. ..one experiences a sense of excitement mixed with awe that one rarely gets with contemporary poetry.” --Dana Gioia, Hudson Review "... A great and extraordinary strength of Radcliffe Squires' poetry is the force and cogency of its design, concretely realized, poem by poem..." -- Brewster Ghiselin, The Sewanee Review "... poems that are powerfully evocative ...a struggle for knowledge and insight in a world often mysteriously cruel... many of his best poems are unassumingly personal...” –-David Mason, Oxford Companion to 20th Century Poetry “It is as though Mr. Squires had simply turned a corner in his mind and beheld an entirely new, more beautiful, and infinitely profounder field of interest...” -- James Dickey, The New York Times Book Review “...he brings us to....the hidden spring of life. Thus he confounds our thoughtlessly held distinctions between life and death, spirit and matter.” —Emily Grosholz, New England Review "I venture the guess that many of these poems must endure as long as English poems are read... when the time has had a chance to sift the chaff from the cliques Radcliffe Squires will come to be recognized as one of the most valid singers of life now at work among us." –-John Ciardi, The Western Humanities Review