PRAISE
FOR ANTLER
“Nakedness honesty beautified by your self-confidence &
self-regard and healthy exuberance, that exuberance a sign of
genius, Bodhisattva wit…seems you have developed your sincerity
& natural truth & come through to eternal poetic ground,
unquestionable & clear …More fineness than I thought
probable to see again in my lifetime from younger solitary unknown
self-inspirer US poet.”
— Allen Ginsberg (letter to Antler, 1976)
“Antler writes with a clear focus in a vernacular mode dealing
straight-on and first hand with the actualities of American and
Planetary life. He’s one of the half-dozen or so truly committed
wilderness poets in American letters.” – Gary Snyder
“Pathos and humor run like lightning streaks through his
work.”
— Andrei Codrescu of NPR & Exquisite Corpse
“Antler gives us sound-filled, richly textured poems that
mean, celebrate, question, witness, hold and examine the oddities,
information and beauty in our world and lives.” –
Susan Firer
“Ahh, that the sacred Exclamation Point is brought forth
again!”
— Ed Sanders (upon first reading Antler’s “Factory”)
“Antler sees the world with the wonder-wide eyes of a child
– eyes that transform images into a language most rare and
sublime. Sometimes his poetry reads like the gentle trickle of
a mountain stream; other times like the primordial ejaculation
of the universe’s Big Bang. The title poem is a hurricane
of images. His lines are like the exclamation points of epiphany
that punctuate our lives.”
— Charles Nevsimal
