"Every once in a while a book comes along that is a threshold or a milestone. . . . I have found a new one of these important, enabling, intriguing and dazzling books in Andrew Joron’s The Cry At Zero." --Laura Moriarty [full review]
Publishers Weekly: "Joron's [prose] is characteristically impeccable, lapidary, sublime. . . . Joron . . . is among the most uncompromising, far-reaching, and underappreciated poets writing today." [full review]
Chax Press blog: "Many generous and enabling readings here, of important texts, events, and ideas."--Charles Alexander, [full review]
Introduction at the April 07 Verse Festival: "As early as his debut poetry book, Science Fiction, [Joron] has been revolving the Mallarméan bouquet within his mind and heart."--Andrew Zawacki [full text of the introduction]
Octopus review by Joshua Marie Wilkinson: "Joron’s operations tend toward the singular, and away from the universal; yet it is here that he unearths his strangest, strongest theses and his most prescient questions." [full review]
Praise for Fathom:
"Andrew Joron has quietly begun to surface as the metaphysician-elect of contemporary American poetry. . . . In the brilliant essay 'The Emergency' . . . he argues that poetry . . . is crucial precisely to the degree that it 'forces language to fail.'"
—Calvin Bedient, Boston Review
"A mind-carbonating book that richly employs the dynamic relation between sound and semantic aspects of language. Here is a philosophical lyric that embodies an active potential for transformation of the world."
—Christine Hume
". . . a sequence of astute investigations into meaning in language. His sense of the poem is one of minute grandeurs, as if particle physics were reincarnated as spiritual lyric."
—Peter O'Leary
Praise for The Removes:
"Andrew Joron explores the dominion of thought. The Removes is guided by language that multiplies the meaning of thought. The poetry develops in several dimensions and echoes of Poe add to its mystery. In creating his exceptional book, Joron reminds us that the boldness of Poetry, and this book has a bold forecasting, maintains itself by levelling 'the New' on remainders of 'the Past.'"
—Barbara Guest
"The Removes is a book of American hieroglyphs, a haunting tracery of 'broken branching signals / Faultless as some harp-tuning.' Poe assumes a proper totemic role (along with such companions as H. P. Lovecraft and Wallace Stevens) in these poems pitched consistently at a Eureka-like level of ecstatic speculation. Andrew Joron is master of a gaudy and tremulous abstraction, capable of harboring rust or blood among its numbers: an abstraction ultimately not abstract at all since 'The bodiless / Enters through the ears and nostrils.' He hears the wind from interstellar space howling through the nets of language, and transcribes it as an intricate and multilayered music."
—Geoffrey O'Brien
