• 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 the force and subtlety of his lyric gift.”
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” . . .unfolding by way of neo-Modernist condensation, juxtaposition, and ellipses, Riley’s heavily textured free verse is formally exquisite in Heard-Hoard—showing attention to the music of vowels and consonants, the etymological life beneath words, and the gestural drama in small inflections and intonations.”
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“The astonishing final poem of the collection, which seems to me one of the great lyrics of our time, “Thicket,” finds the speaker and others turning a clearing in the thorny woods into their own consecrated ground for improvised ritual.”