HENRY BRAUN: “(a) very alive collection...”
WILLIAM HEYEN: “I’ve read with pleasure. Your ironic craft reverberates. . (it) was the psychic tension that held all together.."
MARIA KAZALIA: "Farley does not pretend to actually lead us beyond this life, yet somehow lifts us up above it.. .The spiralling outlay of each Farley poem begins within the superbly simple statement that draws the interested reader in - to find the profound aptly placed just below in phrases and fragments precisely fractured into the depths of truths felt by observation.. .innate understanding of the appropriate use and power and effect and the strength of similie vs. metaphor."
MICHAEL KRIESEL: “Farley’s poems have a clean, observational style. It’s a style that works well in communicating our society’s own gems and evils to ourselves, simply and often with humor, without ego or the rancor these injustices could easily invoke..."
LOUIS MCKEE: “Tight, disciplined lines, conversation, colloquial diction and soft touch.. .clever, fun to read.”
B.Z. NIDITCH: “Wonderful.. .beautiful imagery.. .your whole collection has a humor only you could come up with.. .I’m amazed.”
JOANNE OLIVIERI (editor, Ya’Sou): “It is an absolute delight to read and once started I could not put it down.”
CHARLES P. RIES: “I admired the spare, quite insight I found in Suckers and the remarkable skill it took for Farley to whittle these poems down to nothing but their soul.”
LOU ROACH: “Farley’ s careful use of words encourages readers to examine the complexities and absurdities of living, then keep reaching for what they think they want anyway.”
DON WINTER: “His poetry is close to Whitman’s hope for a ‘democratic poetry.’ ... like populist poets such as Wordsworth or Sandburg. . .The neo-populist poetry scene is fortunate to have him as a mainstay.”
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