- BOSTON GLOBE’S “BEST BOOKS OF 2021” : No one in American poetry has a voicebox quite like Atsuro Riley’s . . . in his second collection, Riley lends his inimitable instrument to boyhood acquaintances and communal complaints.
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“No one in American poetry has a voicebox quite like Atsuro Riley’s — trained by ear on a mother’s native Japanese, the raised vowels of the South Carolina Lowcountry, and Gerard Manley Hopkins’s hyphen-happy, consonant-crowded compounds. In his second collection, Riley lends his inimitable instrument to boyhood acquaintances and communal complaints: “We come gnawed by need on hands and knees.”
— Christopher Spaide