"Charm is difficult to define but we know it when we see it and we see iton every page of Anthony Abbott's elegantly crafted, moving poems, whether elegiac, confessional, allusive, or slyly comic.  Though dealing with deep affairs of the heart--loss, sainthood, memory's wounds--Abbott writes, to borrow Marianne Moore's words, in language cats and dogs can
understand.  His sixth collection is likely to engage anyone who picks it up, both those who avoid poetry as well as the happy few who are addicted."

-Joel Conarroe, President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation