I am convinced that the first lyric poem was written at night, and that the moon was witness to the event and that the event was witness to the moon. For me, the moon has always been the very embodiment of lyric poetry.

When I first encountered the poems of Jon Woodward, I was stunned into the state that is my life's joy-I was in the presence of the inimitable. Uncanny Valley extends that experience-almost into another dimension. These apocalyptic, pixilated poems forge a mythology of our ravaged culture, one that might have been written in the future. If you want poetry to give you a persimmon on a plate, look elsewhere; if you want to know what happens when seven trees fall on the highway and the story is told by a stutterer, this is the book, and it could only have been written by Woodward.

in the beginning William Shakespeare was a baby, and knew absolutely nothing. He couldn't even speak.

I study nature so as not to do foolish things.

A poem is a finished work of the mind, it is not the work of a finished mind.

Poetry is sentimental to begin with. To write a sentimental poem is an act of redundancy.

The industrial world destroys nature not because it doesn’t love it but because it is not afraid of it.