"The quiet fierceness of Ogling Anchor reaches us from that distance where it may no longer be possible to write the disaster that must be written anyway. Not demanding an attention that's never going to arrive, these poems continue nonetheless in their necessary seriousness, addressing themselves to our viciously real contemporary darkness in which poetry can become only the defeat by which we save ourselves. The poems in Ogling Anchor are whispers silenced by the roar, and as such, the only sort of sound worth hearing."

--Mark Wallace