Without Reservation: New & Selected Poems

John Smelcer is a very considerable American poet, an astute observer of our contemporary scene. — X. J. Kennedy — These poems clear, rueful, courageous, sardonic, hard-lived, and backed up with a big heart and life-knowledge. — Gary Snyder — This is poetry as it should be, without a wasted word, with unparalleled attention to sound and rhythm. — W. P. Kinsella