Jared Carter Poetry

This is one of the clearest and strongest first books to have appeared in recent decades... Work, for the Night Is Coming is a beautiful, enriching book. Henry Taylor, Magill's Literary Annual

From beginning to end, this volume has the quiet passion of conviction, the voice of a poet who knows exactly what he wants to say and how to say it... Behind the range of styles and approaches, one recognizes a single honest and contemporary voice. Dana Gioia, Poetry

Carter's is a poetry of a resolute middle distance, firmly of this world: between the dust under the earth and the dust of space there exists the place that the poem can illumine. Helen Vendler, New York Review of Books

These are loving poems, delivered in a quiet, authoritative voice; the reader slips into their flow and partakes of a communion... a remarkable achievement. Bruce Bennett, New York Times Book Review