Review
"Ronald Wallace adapts the traditional sonnet sequence to the painful evolution of child to adult life and a healing scramble toward maturity. The best of these 100 updated Petrarchan or Italian sonnets (with skillful variations of meter and rhyme) show a capacity to discover meanings of identity and victimization. . . .converge." -- Reviews, Forms of Coping
"When Wallace writes with this kind of assurance, as he does most of the time, there is not much to do but be grateful for the poems." -- Henry Taylor
Even though 'nothing ever seemed quite level or true,' The Uses of Adversity maps a course to a place where memory and the human spirit converge. -- Frank Allen, Poet Lore, Volume 93, No. 3
"When Wallace writes with this kind of assurance, as he does most of the time, there is not much to do but be grateful for the poems." -- Henry Taylor
Even though 'nothing ever seemed quite level or true,' The Uses of Adversity maps a course to a place where memory and the human spirit converge. -- Frank Allen, Poet Lore, Volume 93, No. 3
