"I'm pretty blown away by how messy, heartbreaking, and absolutely essential each line is. This is a LONG poem I'm not sure I want to end just yet. Do you know how long it's been since I've read something that's made me feel like that?"
-- Tony Robinson on Rhode Island Notebook, Dec 13, 2007, at Geneva Convention
"The is the first 21st century classic."
"Rhode Island Notebook is a modern/postmodern epic as a poem-including-everything. An incredibly human/humane book at bottom, it is also Gudding’s road of excess, as Blake once had it, leading him (& us) to the palace of wisdom."
-- Jerome Rothenberg
-- Jerome Rothenberg
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