Trees of the Twentieth Century
Driven by synesthesia, Stephen Sturgeon's magnificent poems affect the senses and embed themselves in the intellect, permanently. --Philip Nikolayev, author ofLetters from Aldenderryand co-founder ofFulcrum: an Annual of Poetry and AestheticsThere are poems in this collection that I consider to be among the finest poems in the English language, and they have made me shiver until I wept. --Ben Mazer, author ofPoemsandJanuary 2008Sturgeon illuminates the otherwise transparent impressions of memory and conscience, those opaque connections between our imaginations and each other, in music that sharpens the verse with thrilling uncertainty. His poems impress themselves upon the mind like an iron. He may be the first major poet of this generation. --Daniel Pritchard, editor ofThe Critical Flame