"Bobrick's work has largeness and meaning-mythological meaning-without which we cannot live." -P.L. Travers, author of Mary Poppins "A supremely active intelligence and wit that have left few human experiences closed to his keen observation, judicious comment, or fair assessment. His work is masterly." -Composer George Rochberg, Annenberg Professor of the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania "Bobrick is an accomplished poet, and his title piece, 'Requiem: For the Innocents,' is an ominous poem of great power, reminiscent of 'The Second Coming' by W.B. Yeats.

" -Martin Elster, Co-winner: Thomas Gray International Poetry Competition, 2014; Winner: Helen Schaible International Sonnet Contest, 2022 Though esteemed as an historian, the author of this small, well-wrought collection is also a lyric poet of distinction. Such a combination is rare, and it may be said that these poems claim a singular place for him in contemporary verse. Though the style is formal, and generally links personal observation and experience to larger themes, the author is not a "New Formalist" exactly, but rather, as the late, great P.L. Travers remarked, a writer whose voice has "largeness and meaning-mythological meaning" in his exploration of archetypal ideas. For, as the poems illuminate, it is those paradigmatic moments in our own experience-known to us from parable and myth-that heighten and define our lives.