"Always happiest shifting tonal and emotional gears at wrenching speeds, and always honest (and gutsy) enough to let the ugliest and most unsettling faces of eros peak through the strings of his lyre, Bedient asks us, in this newest volume, to awaken yet further to the hard ancient truth of the plucked string, to the sweet and sour overtones of ... Read morethat plucking, to the deep fear it awakens in the listener, to the apparent jangling, apparent hooting, and the strange hope that runs its metamorphic tributary underneath."
Jorie Graham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Place , on The Violence of the Morning " Days of Unwilling creates relationships not through aggressive juxtaposition, but fluidly, through progression."
Boston Review on Days of Unwilling "There is a truly original and powerful mind at work in this collection. It reflects one of the most sophisticated understandings of poetic voice in contemporary poetry."
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