NEW! Heard-Hoard in The Poetry Foundation ‘Library Book Picks’ !

NEW! Heard-Hoard in The Poetry Foundation ‘Library Book Picks’ ! https://www.poetryfoundation.org/library/book-picks➠➠ “Riley splits words apart and arranges them in counterpoint to create a singular music, an effect that reminded me of cracking open a geode to reveal its secret inner glittering.  Readers of these poems will enter a fully formed world, with its own characters, […]

PODCAST! Atsuro Riley discussing Heard-Hoard with the hosts of AUTHORS UNBOUND

PODCAST! Atsuro Riley discusses Heard-Hoard in AUTHORS UNBOUND #1 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/atsuro-riley-unbound/id1650629531?i=1000583943324➠➠ Heard-Hoard is imaginatively colorful and fully rendered, by such an exquisite artist. . .  —Peter Campion,  co-host of AUTHORS UNBOUND (with Patrick Davis)  

REVIEW! Lana Turner Journal: “I can’t think of a poet writing right now more original, more true to his internal tuning fork and singular vision. ”

REVIEW! Carol Moldaw reviews Heard-Hoard in LANA TURNER JOURNAL #15 https://lanaturnerjournal.com/v/vspfiles/images/Carol_Moldaw-%20Atsuro_Rileys_Heard-Hoard-2022.pdf➠➠ Linguistically and sonically intense, emotionally buffeting . . . The redemption inherent in these poems is inextricable from the textured guttural language in which all is expressed. I can’t think of a poet writing right now more original, more true to his internal tuning fork and […]

REVIEW! The Georgia Review: “A poet perpetually at the top of his craft, balancing music and silence to create power.”

REVIEW! Emily Pérez reviews Heard-Hoard & Romey’s Order :: The Georgia Review: https://thegeorgiareview.com/posts/sounding-and-resounding-the-immersive-poetry-of-atsuro-riley-on-atsuro-rileys-romeys-order-and-heard-hoard/➠➠ “A poet perpetually at the top of his craft, balancing music and silence to create power.” “Atsuro Riley does it all: plot, place, people.” “In his first collection, a wonder-eyed child tells stories of a place that adult readers understand is laced with darkness. In […]

REVIEW! The Hudson Review: “In its disjunctiveness and linguistic density, Heard-Hoard may seem to be the most conventionally experimental of the books under review. Yet, in its portrayals of outcasts and vagrants like Candy, its grounding on local speech, its emotional intensity, and its devotion to story, it is, ironically, the most Wordsworthian: radical in its bracing mix of lyric and narrative and in its deeply compassionate humanism.”   

REVIEW! Meg Schoerke reviews Heard-Hoard — The Hudson Review: https://hudsonreview.com/2022/05/lyric-tales/#.YnAtgS1h3fY➠➠   “In its disjunctiveness and linguistic density, Heard-Hoard may seem to be the most conventionally experimental of the books under review. Yet, in its portrayals of outcasts and vagrants like Candy, its grounding on local speech, its emotional intensity, and its devotion to story, it is, ironically, the most […]

REVIEW! Colorado Review “In ways that few poets can access—think Hopkins, think Celan—Riley is at work in a different intelligence language holds, one folded underneath the ratios of daily logic.”

REVIEW! Dan-Beachy Quick reviews Heard-Hoard — Colorado Review: https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/as-winter-tilts-into-spring-three-recommendations-from-the-poetry-reviews-editor➠➠   “ In ways that few poets can access—think Hopkins, think Celan—Riley is at work in a different intelligence language holds, one folded underneath the ratios of daily logic. . . ____________________ ” A vision in which the ancient mythic and the lived moment interpenetrate. . .” ____________________ […]

Heard-Hoard Reviewed in WORLD LITERATURE TODAY! Julian Gewirtz writes: “In these pages, Riley creates a uniquely American idiom—expressive, earthy, and flat-out dazzling—that will slake and succor readers for many years to come.”

Julian Gewirtz reviews Heard-Hoard in World Literature Today: https://www.worldliteraturetoday.org/2022/january/heard-hoard-atsuro-riley➠➠ “In these pages, Riley creates a uniquely American idiom—expressive, earthy, and flat-out dazzling—that will slake and succor readers for many years to come.” ———————————————————————— “Heard-Hoard contains many examples of wicked desires and violent compulsions—from angry gangs of runaway children to a tormented former prisoner of war—but the […]

REVIEW! The Adroit Journal “This book is crucial to contemporary American poetry right now because it shows a lyric poet of unique formal gifts doing something we’d usually expect from a great novelist—exploring and fully rendering our striving to give shape and meaning to our lives together—all while maintaining the force and subtlety of his lyric gift.”

REVIEW! Peter Campion reviews Heard-Hoard in The Adroit Journal: https://theadroitjournal.org/2021/11/15/a-review-of-atsuro-rileys-heard-hoard/➠➠ “This book is crucial to contemporary American poetry right now because it shows a lyric poet of unique formal gifts doing something we’d usually expect from a great novelist—exploring and fully rendering our striving to give shape and meaning to our lives together—all while maintaining […]

REVIEW! Colorado Review “In ways that few poets can access—think Hopkins, think Celan—Riley is at work in a different intelligence language holds, one folded underneath the ratios of daily logic. . .”

REVIEW!  Dan-Beachy Quick reviews Heard-Hoard in Colorado Review: https://coloradoreview.colostate.edu/reviews/as-winter-tilts-into-spring-three-recommendations-from-the-poetry-reviews-editor➠➠   “ In ways that few poets can access—think Hopkins, think Celan—Riley is at work in a different intelligence language holds, one folded underneath the ratios of daily logic. . . ____________________ ” A vision in which the ancient mythic and the lived moment interpenetrate. . […]