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Praise for White City:
“Mark Irwin’s poetry is astir with liquid light, light wind, leaves, blossoms and the slight but weighty questions that anchor us in his trembling landscapes. ‘Because every thought is either memory or desire, the world / pulls away on both sides’ leaving space for our tentative living. This is a book one wants to taste again and again.”
—John Ashbery
“Subtlety of ear, of phrasing, of language altogether, and a light-play of feeling, disguise the urgency and evocative range of Mark Irwin’s grave sensibility. The richness and evanescence of the moment surface repeatedly in his lines.”
—W.S. Merwin
“Mark Irwin is one of those poets looking for the beautiful place, or the beautiful green place, or that place full of light or sweet water or wind or whatever it is we foolish American poets search for and mourn over. His music is lovely and his voice is some combination of tender and courageous. He is one of those poets who contains and expresses our history.”
—Gerald Stern