“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