WINTER IN EDEN
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"The voice in Robert Schultz's Winter in Eden is so accomplished, so mature, we feel we have always known the poems, even as we are surprised by their new idiom, and visionary eloquence."
-- Robert Morgan
"Robert Schultz is a scrupulous craftsman and a poet of subtle effects. His wintry landscapes are stripped to their bare essentials, and for this poet, where landscapes are, morality is not far behind. My favorite of Robert Schultz's poems, "Antarctica," is a crown of sonnets-an exceptional piece of writing and an excellent instance of metrical restraint yielding maximum power of concision."
-- David Lehman
"A poetry of anguish and eros-each tuned to excruciating precision by a poet whose ear is exquisite, whose eye is unflinching, whose heart and mind are always at risk."
--Gregory Orr
"In Winter in Eden, Robert Schultz makes a striking emotional journey through a life in a season. The poems, generous and rich in their details, carry the reader along as an intimate participant, and they resonate in the mind long after each reading."
-- Joseph Langland
"Robert Schultz is a precise and highly skilled poet. He looks closely and broods on things small and large. He has humanity and conscience. As an 'atomic veteran,' I am deeply moved by 'When the Magnitude of the Possible Dawned.' . . . This is a significant beginning."
-- Paul Zimmer