"Meyerhofer's tough, lovely poems remind us that the aim of being human, of moving through what Keats called 'this Vale of Soul-Making,' is to rise above ourselves, to take this sorry predicament and turn it into something shining and valuable."


"Michael Meyerhofer takes us with him everywhere he goes, from the back rooms of hash-slingers to the Star of Africa...I like these poems, kinetic and half-crazed, they remind me that poetry is an explosion, that energy plus mass equals a dark magic."


"Meyerhofer has the inner resources and the craft to address worlds imagined and ideal, but he insists on writing chiefly of this one, and he does it fearlessly, making neither warmth nor anger...He reminds me of a young James Wright. He reveals the heart as do few other poets who have suffered an education."


"Michael Meyerhofer is the master of the twist, the patron saint of lines embodying equal parts comedy and poignancy."


“Sometimes, Michael Meyerhofer’s poems are excruciatingly tender, the next moment (or poem) blistering satire, the next walk-into-a-wall funny. The one thing that’s predictable about his poems is that they are unpredictable. I think it’s almost time for the poets of my generation to start picking out chairs on the rest home porch. There’s a whole new generation coming up, and they mean business, and Meyerhofer is one of them. I will read every word he writes until I can read no more.”