The Wings of What You Say by Steven Nightingale (paperback)

There is a natural ecstatic in Steven Nightingale, whom one might situate on a scale somewhere between Emerson and Rumi. And there is also a craftsman—with a jeweler’s or watchmaker’s meticulousness—who wants to make the sonnet mimic his wonder at the architecture of things. They are both very present in these sonnets, and they make a labor out of praise and a praise out of labor.

—Robert Hass

Former U.S. Poet Laureate