Photographing Eden

Reviews / Votes

"Jason Gray's gift is quiet but profound. He brings the same respectful eye to nature as to acts of art - an eye that adds its own light to the occasions. A book for delectation." - Heather McHugh, final judge "(Gray's) verse is the evident product of a disciplined mind, and it is even, more frequently than one might expect, beautiful." (Pleiades) "Few poets are more with it than Jason Gray. It is better than that: he is equally at home with the urban and the 'natural,' the present and the past. He is enabled by a secure but unobtrusive technique.... His phrasing can be startling without being freakish. It is the rightness that startles." - Turner Cassity "Photographing Eden is a book of postlapsarian poems intent not on naming the creatures of a new world, but on naming-and thus trying to reclaim-the losses of this one. By turns dark and whimsical, these poems offer field guides and museum tours, photographs and paintings, of our mythological prehistory and our shadowy future." - A. E. Stallings