"John Clarke is among those stand-out poets who are guides of what to do in writing that thinks. So - we may come through. . . . Here we are just plain after the modern (to use Olson's clear recognition and step around the pile up of positivisms) and at work."
Robin Blaser

"John Clarke uses language like a can opener to breach the orders of thought (the essential tautologies of self-Being) that we might get at the meat of the Potentiality locked within."
Diane di Prima

"With a depth of humanity and intelligence hardly visible anymore in our culture, Jack...