"F. Daniel Rzicznek's Cloud Tablets presents to us prose poems as they're meant to be--chock full of surprising images and compelling music. Where else would we find sheep in a library and a seraphim at a nightclub other than in a prose poem? Rzicznek presents these moments and others with the right mix of narrative and lyricism. There's a gasp of surprise in each of these poems, exclamation points of existential joy waiting in the marginalia."--Gary LaFemina

"F. Daniel Rzicznek harvests the world as process in fine detail, isolating the moment of perception as an act of...

F. Daniel Rzicznek is a shapeshifter of poets-sometimes a watchful heron, sometimes a wheeling hawk, sometimes a gliding owl, and always an exquisitely observant crow. Poetry, he says, is a paranormal event. DIVINATION MACHINE makes the case. -Djelloul Marbrook We have confessional poets, who write about themselves; nature poets, who write about place; experimental poets, who write about language. And we have F. Daniel Rzicznek, who finds "many centers to the world," whose DIVINATION MACHINE resists simplification into any one category. Rzicznek is a poet for whom "Everything / is a piece of...