Todd's a poet with an unmistakable, original voice. He's a lyricist and a sharp-eyed--even say hard-eyed, sometimes--observer of the most tender subjects. Not since Ted Roethke has the natural world had such a testifier. Gotta read this-- ( )

This book has been on my wish list for quite awhile. I read it within two days of receiving it. As the back cover says, Boss masters the internal rhyme, poem after poem. A keeper. A more-than-once read for sure. ( )

When was the last time you read a book of poetry cover to cover? I am not sure if I ever had til I got this slim volume of poems by Todd Boss. The images and the voices of young and old for whom work, the cold, and struggle are everyday occurrences rarely put into words become live on the page. It's like a series of staged dramas in just enough words. Vignettes of struggle, lives, nature, parenthood, childhood blend into one another in a page turning way. I could see places and people I have known in these poems. ( )