Praise for William Pitt Root

To read these poems is to cup a breath in your hands. Within the breath are fervent promises of remembrance whispered from the wheel of death, marriages, birth—out of fury and love.

—Joy Harjo, First Indigenous Poet Laureate of the United States

His poems, as quiet and knowledgeable as boulders, are run with compassion and longing. . .they break winter’s back.

—Barry Lopez, author of Of Wolves and Men, Horizon, and Arctic Dreams

“The Unbroken Diamond” is an extremely strong piece of work. . .this country needs badly. As fast as I know you are the only poet in the whole U.S. who had heart enough to address this subject (the Soviet campaign in Afghanistan). Your lines. . .surely redeem this nation.

—Joseph Brodsky, Russian dissident poet, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature