Takeout Kitchen Below the Perseus Cluster

Praise for TAKEOUT KITCHEN BELOW THE PERSEUS CLUSTER: NEW & SELECTED POEMS

Over the course of his writing life, Kevin Cantwell's quiet, muscular poems have continued to set him apart from other poets not only because of their sure, hypnotic music but because of where they lead, to the unexpected endings that lift them off the page with the wisdom they contain. Cantwell's poems tackle big subjects: what love both gives and takes away, what memory brings to life and what it teaches us, and what the human heart can hold. In the title poem, Cantwell writes that "all lyric poems are somehow always about time." The time it takes to read these powerful poems is far shorter than the time they will stay in your mind.

-Wyn Cooper, author of The Unraveling and Mars Poetica

Praise for ONE OF THOSE RUSSIAN NOVELS

This is poetry teeming with light, darkness, color, movement, heat, cold, sound, and silence. Reading it is like watching a complicated, demanding movie or, in full consciousness, life.

-Ray Olson, Booklist, Starred Review

Praise for SOMETHING BLACK IN THE GREEN PART OF YOUR EYE

"Song of the Black Corona," "Choral Lines from the Sumerian," the title poem, "The Wooden Trap"-these poems say that the world is on fire but only the steadiest and most masterful hand can show us the burning. Kevin Cantwell's steady and masterful poems blend poise and intimacy in a style that is his own and built for the ages.

-Frank Bidart, author of Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2026, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize