Paul Violi needs to be read (and taught) MORE-with incredible seriousness and with serious delight. He was, hands down, one of our best-most inventive, most adventurous, most original, most resourceful-poets, and he did more than anybody to push the boundaries and expand the possibilities of what poetry could be, while simultaneously reaffirming at every instant exactly what poetry has always been: singing in the service of the infinite. - Matt Hart

William Heyen:: Lord Dragonfly originally published in 1981 by Vanguard Press. reissued 2010 by H_NGM_N BKS. The full text of the original volume including new notes by the author, a preface by series editor Nate Pritts & a critical appreciation by Matthew Henriksen.

"Pritts's world is rich, vivid, intimate, and somewhat troubled." - Justin Taylor in Poetry "The flights and whims of Pritts's imagination hit hardest when he creates a form inside which they can ricochet. ...] In these moments, the poems ...] arrive at a place of vulnerability and sincerity." - Publishers Weekly "The only person more dangerous than a dark-hearted man is a dark-hearted man on a sunny day." - Melissa Broder in The Rumpus

"Weaving his poems together as a meditative critique of technology and its numbing effect on the everyday, Pritts asks readers to imagine other possibilities amid "this daily flood/ of ephemera, this electronic life." -Publishers Weekly http: //publishersweekly.com/978-0-692-59878-8 "Clouds, leaves, sun, seasons, Google, Google Maps, email after email, afternoon coffee, surplus root vegetables, snow - this is poetry hungry for the emphatic or the manic, an exploration of what we gave away when we give of ourselves." -JoAnna Novak "These poems are everything I fear, the collapse of what I know...