- BOOKWORM’S “TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2021” : The strongest new book of poetry this year . . .
https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/bookworm/best-books-2021-jeffers-ishiguro-spiegelman➠➠
“In what is to my mind the strongest new book of poetry this year,
Atsuro Riley’s Heard-Hoard universalizes the traumas of childhood in the Carolina mountains.
He restores the memories of what he heard–the heard-hoard–to the word-hoard, the mountains of language that ensnare and liberate us all.
It’s a magnificent followup to his award-winning Romey’s Order published eleven years ago.
A long-awaited and satisfying book.“