“Middle Earth [is] a lyric reconsecration . . . This new voice transfixes us by its incantatory clarity . . . A haunting exploration of the vulnerabilities of the speaking self.” 
-- Maureen N. McLane, 
The New York Times Book Review

“These are the poems of a conjurer, ceremonial and hypnotic . . . [Cole] is also a remarkable fabulist, now writing the poems of his career.”  
-- Dana Goodyear, 
Los Angeles Times Book Review