"What I learned from reading George Bowering! Few of my books would exist without his joyful mixcentrations, Anne Hébert with Mallarmé, Avison spills tea on Saint-John Perse. In generously sounding poetry's idioms, fearless foot in mouth if needed, George Bowering's serial work quixotes us without quitting. It hurrahs us all." --Erín Moure~ ~ "'A serial poem,' Robin Blaser writes, 'refuses to adopt an imposed story line.' So the poems in Taking Measures begin over and over, tracking Bowering's narrative momentum, poetic sensibility, and wit. When the poem moves in a new direction, the way it goes is not premeditated; rather, it arises out of the poet's alertness to his Muse in language." --George Stanley~ ~ "Taking Measures is a box of treasures. These poems are serial, yes, but they are also dendritic, in the way they have made way for other poems by other poets, and in other ways.

When you're reading George Bowering and you stop, reverse, and re-read, then lift your eyes up off the page to go where your thoughts are going past that, you're in the procedure; you're wonderfully forever in it. Also: pleasures." --Wayde Compton~ ~ "In delving into this recently published collection, we have proof of what we already suspected of George Bowering's work . This book is a must-read." --Alessandra Capperdoni, Canadian Literature / Littérature canadienne~ ~ "A beautiful edition and a gift to Bowering's readers." --Nicholas Bradley, The Ormsby Review~ ~.