On Autumn Lake

Crase’s essays are deeply knowledgeable and intimate, managing to write critically about poets, as in the case of Ashbery and Schuyler, that he was personally close to for decades, allowing his friendships to open up, and not hinder, the possibility for clear critical examination. […] This is easily the finest collection of prose I’ve read in years.

The future awaits us and Crase has set the bar high for all of us. May we live up to his example.

Four decades of critical writing from poet Crase (The Revisionist) come together in this intensive collection… Crase is skeptical about calling the pieces criticism; rather, “they are appreciations or predilections, though to be truthful they were more like affairs of the heart, affairs of attention and intellectual desire, rather than criticism.”