"The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware,
joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware."

--Henry Miller

Reviews

Robert Haight’s Emergences and Spinner Falls is an extraordinary collection. This is poetry with teeth that both nibbles and bites hard. It is full of the things of this world, scarcely noticed even by most poets, without which we are the living dead. There is the marvelous sense of the grace and wit of a good poet at the top of his form.

Jim Harrison

These poems are a tribute to water, to the source of water and the expression of water in the forms of rivers, bloodstreams and pools of mystery. You can drink here, or fish. Eventually you become the water, as you become the poems.

Joy Harjo

Robert Haight’s strong and vital poems follow the current and flow of our lives into the very heart of the American landscape. They record the narrows and the hesitations, the continuance and the possibilities of water moving—and it is here that we find ourselves, swimming in the current. Surely, Haight must carry the river in his veins, for his language is the river’s, his pace is the river’s and, above all, his never-failing vision is that of the river. These poems speak truths; I know I’ll want to return to them again and again.

Judith Minty

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