wrote about Robert Huff. And the beautiful cover
their tone. Watch the complex way Huff makes beauty
“These late poems recover for us, and—each time I
read them—perform anew the complexity of my
belovéd first teacher. Brilliant, wounded, tough,
generous, determined to see clearly, that man and
these poems are necessary to my own sense of the
“moral to [our] quaint story. It is threefold: Happiness
is love. Love is taking care of what is. The world must
not be hateful.”
—Scott Cairns, author of
Slow Pilgrim: The Collected
Poems
"The best of his poetry speaks to us, our time and
our situation, person by person. He makes poetry a
form of friendship and reminds us what it is to be
cherished in our ice age...He is what the good poet
is today, hard, honest, warm, hurt, with his teeth on
edge. More power to him."
—Karl Shapiro, author of
V-Letter and Other Poems
"...the language exploding into articulation as if to say,
'And I only am escaped alone to tell thee.'"
—Anthony Hecht, author of
The Hard Hours
"I like Robert Huff's verse. I find it fresh and vigorous
and human and it smells of the earth of America and its
vivid history."
—Sean O'Faolain, author of
The Talking Trees
"When I first read a few poems by Robert Huff
I was startled by their bounce, their comedy, their
depth of feeling—by their general artistic authority."
—James Wright, author of
The Branch Will Not Break
"The most underrated poet in America."
—James Whitehead, author of
Near at Hand
"He has the sinew, sound effects, and rhythm of a real poet."
—Robert Lowell, author of
Life Studies
