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"Albert Einstein once wrote, 'Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.' Einstein, no doubt, would have trusted the important matters to Rick Mulkey, who marvels at what lies beyond the stars and what lies under the soil, who honors both the flesh and ghosts. Mulkey's faithful detail in the poems in Toward Any Darkness is gorgeous in its transformations, its quirks and quarks, capturing reality and beyond."--Denise Duhamel
"With each new book, Rick Mulkey's poems have become richer and deeper. Now, in Toward Any Darkness, he takes us to that middle ground between the phantasmal (miracles, psychics, alternative worlds, ghosts, UFOs: 'Some days I know my entire life / is an attempt to break the laws of physics') and the solid, textured evidence of the everyday: a sorghum field, a '73 Chevy, a child's turtle-shaped pool, the clasped hands of parental love. He takes us, I mean to say, to our own lives. And he allows us to reconsider them in language that's by turns luminous, wry, elegiac, celebratory, and sometimes just plain old luscious." --Albert Goldbarth
