" This is poetry of reflection and digression and probing -- you feel as if you're sitting on Koethe's back porch with him as the stars come out, having a whiskey and solving the world's problems . . . The wry, melancholy charm is calculated, of course, as any good writer's persona ought to be, but that makes it no less effective. Where poetry is concerned, style is substance." --David Orr, The New York Times

"Its musicality is the inconspicuous polyphony of a mind-that-is-of-two-minds in motion. It's a quiet music, hard to hear, though once you've got its sound in your ear, instantly recognizable . . . . Koethe's words follow the unheard melody of meaning in the making and unmaking. " --Barry Schwabsky, The Point