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“Worlds come together in Robert Wrigley’s new collection, The True Account of Myself as a Bird, taking surprising leaps of dare and faith inside every turn, and rituals of becoming traverse borders of mind and flesh, as each word grooves. And it is a felt, lived music that runs a binding seam through human lives so natural and true.” —Yusef Komunyakaa, author of Night Animals
“[Nemerov's Door] is, finally, a poet’s autobiography, and the very best book of its kind that I’ve ever read.”
--Stephen Dunn
“Robert Wrigley has long been one of my foundational poets. Each of his books has taught me how to live in this world. And now this welcome essay collection brings a fresh slant of light on the trail. This is wonderful work. I’m grateful for it.”
—Luis Alberto Urrea
“The ambiguity in Anatomy lies not in the language but in the world it depicts. Not even a poet of Wrigley's skill can offer us moral absolutes, nor is he concerned with doing so. Like our best poetry, Wrigley's documents the ironic and subtle, the curious and painful, leaving it to his readers to draw what conclusions they may. One conclusion hard to avoid upon reading Wrigley's latest collection is that it was written by an exceptional poet at the peak of his powers.”—Ben Evans, The Huffington Post
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“Wrigley's quiet respect for nonhuman nature and his consistent interest in the meaning of sex, paternity and literary inheritance unify his detailed and trustworthy..work, in which ‘Living is a slow dance you know/ you're dreaming, but the chill at your neck/ is real.’"--Booklist
“[Wrigley’s] honest musical language lifts real experience daily into art.--Billy Collins
“Wrigley ponders what it is that we have that animals lack, and what animals have that we can only long for: their perfect fit with the cosmos. His unsentimental contemplation of nature’s fecundity and the mythic trials of drought, flood, fire, and ice give rise to endless questions of faith. Dramatic and heady, Wrigley’s transporting poems knit us tightly into the glistening web of life.”–Donna Seaman, Booklist
"The work of poetry is to awaken us more deeply into our lives, and Robert Wrigley's new collection fulfills this task with consummate vision and skill. In the Bank of Beautiful Sins is a book that walks through the richness of the world with all its senses open--the senses of the body, of the mind, of the heart. To read is to unpeel a little further into the human, and into the wideness that holds the human--a splendid gift."
-- Jane Hirshfield
"[Wrigley] is one of the finest new poets to come along in years: strong, imaginative, and resolute. [In Moon In a Mason Jar], he combines compelling, simple narratives with a superb sense of dramatic occasion."
--James Dickey
"What My Father Believed gives us a brilliant anatomy of American manhood, of a boy 'in a man's husk' filled with dying, of the 'televised war' and the 'blade of pain' that separates fathers and sons, of the 'mind-killing efficiency of assembly lines,' of adolescent initiation and burning and odd clairvoyant moments of grace, of invisible men whose entire lives are a story of 'sweat and mistakes, cement and rage.' Robert Wrigley's poems of testimony and memory cast a fierce, clarifying, and ultimately healing light into the dark reaches of the American psyche."--Edward Hirsch
"The Sinking of Clay City revolves around the disabling effects of deindustrialization on [Wrigley's] hometown of Collinsville, Illinois, a small mining fifteen miles east of St. Louis. [These poems] emanate from a desire for story and from [his] love of the natural world."
--Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum, The Missouri Review
"This selection is Wrigley's first UK publication and covers work from nine collections, including Reign of Snakes, Lives of the Animals, Earthly Meditations and Beautiful Country, and is a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. Elegiac and lyrical, playful and angry, The Church of Omnivorous Light offers a vision that is fierce, unflinching, and clear. 'Wrigley ponders what it is that we have that animals lack, and what animals have that we can only long for: their perfect fit with the cosmos... Dramatic and heady, his transporting poems knit us tightly into the glistening web of life.'"--Booklist