"Gibson presents a series of clear formalist poems, each organized around a different kind of patterning. A series of eight seven-line poems--each in the rectangular shape of a painting--examines the life and art of Pierre Bonnard. But the focus is Marthe de Méligny, Bonnard's lover, model, and eventually, his wife. The eroticism of Marthe washing her feet in a bathtub or being submerged in it naked is balanced by the mention of the objects in the painting where 'everything alive . is dead.' Add to this grouping an intricately successful pantoum about Diane Arbus, along with my favorite, a twenty-seven-line monorhyme (a tour de force by the way) written in reaction to a photograph of Hermann Göring's suicide. The radical subjects of Arbus (also a suicide) and SS Commander Göring are brought under control by the imposition of form. The resulting tension shows this exceptional poet at his rhyming best.

" --Billy Collins.