"Pritts's world is rich, vivid, intimate, and somewhat troubled." - Justin Taylor in Poetry "The flights and whims of Pritts's imagination hit hardest when he creates a form inside which they can ricochet. ...] In these moments, the poems ...] arrive at a place of vulnerability and sincerity." - Publishers Weekly "The only person more dangerous than a dark-hearted man is a dark-hearted man on a sunny day." - Melissa Broder in The Rumpus

Paul Violi needs to be read (and taught) MORE-with incredible seriousness and with serious delight. He was, hands down, one of our best-most inventive, most adventurous, most original, most resourceful-poets, and he did more than anybody to push the boundaries and expand the possibilities of what poetry could be, while simultaneously reaffirming at every instant exactly what poetry has always been: singing in the service of the infinite. - Matt Hart

William Heyen:: Lord Dragonfly originally published in 1981 by Vanguard Press. reissued 2010 by H_NGM_N BKS. The full text of the original volume including new notes by the author, a preface by series editor Nate Pritts & a critical appreciation by Matthew Henriksen.