Critical Commentary
“These are driving, sensuous poems, not at all talky or merely historical or cerebral: they vive the feel of a region we could locate on a map, a rich Spoon river Anthology of the mountain West, told with all the splendid aspects of the craft.”—Walt McDonald, Former Director of Creative, English Department, Texas Tech University (on In the Colorado Gold Fever Mountains)
“. . . these wonderfully chosen ‘scenes’ from a life teeming with family, friends and adversaries give the reader not biography, not history, but a glimpse into the life of John Keats, the man . . . earthy, surprising and original.”—Marie Harris, Poet Laureate of New Hampshire (on Petitions for Immortality: Scenes from the Life of John Keats)
