Winner of the 2004 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
“Aaron Smith speaks with a rare grace, truly.”
“Aaron Smith’s Blue on Blue Ground is a sensuous poetry, a poetry about the complexities of both the psyche and the body. . . .”
“How entertaining to read this poet’s litany of doubts and anxieties! It’s awesome how he peels off his skin− he flinches plenty, but operates on himself heroically. . . .”
“[A] book that will leave bite marks on the inner thigh of literature.”
“‘How quickly I am made strange,’ says the daughter of a dying man seen accidentally by a stranger walking by the hospital window and stopping to watch; and reading these often beautiful poems, how quickly we are made strange, alive to ourselves.”