"It comes as a relief to read work by a poet who appears to be at least as interested in the world as he is in himself. Here, we are happy to be conducted by Gary Geddes out of the glass dome of the ego and into a wider, more capacious world of culture, history, and even erudition." --Billy Collins "The poems in Gary Geddes's What Does a House Want? have weight not often found in contemporary poetry, partly because they range far and wide, are not about one person, family, continent, or even era. They are about the world, about us in that world. They are fanciful, playful, sad, intense, frightening, and authentic, often all those at once. Mostly, though, Geddes's poems are true, each and every one." --Mary Troy, author of Beauties ". a deadly accuracy in language and form.

" --Eli Mandel "#145;Sandra Lee Scheuer' is the kind of poem most poets wait a lifetime for." --Al Purdy.