Alphabet Quote by Jenny Zhang

You've read some of the poems in this new unpublished book [Walker's Alphabet], e.g., the poem "C." I have a number of poems whose…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

This book was made possible by the letter “ø.

— Jessica Day George

“My Poetry book ”

— Rabisha

“Books become my refuge. Reading keeps me hopeful. I fall in love with small poems, the shorter the better- haiku from Japan, and tiny…

— Margarita Engle

Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Every word, every sentence, every poem and every chapter of a book I have written came from the bottom of my heart, it's very…

— Euginia Herlihy

The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent,…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

“They were beautiful books, sometimes very thick, sometimes very thin, always typographically exhilarating, with their welter of title pages, subheads, epigraphs, emphatic italics, italicized…

— John Updike

“This book was made possible by the letter “ø.” Also the letter “æ.” The first time I saw them, I fell in love and…

— Jessica Day George

“Everything, indeed, in a work of art should be unedited,--and even the words, by the manner of grouping them, of shaping them to new…

— Remy de Gourmont

“It may be whispered to those uninitiated people who are anxious to know the habits and make the acquaintance of men of letters, that…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

If I looked at some of these pieces as if this project was not spoken-word but just short anthology, I probably would have fussed…

— Richard Meltzer