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University of Nebraska Press, 2014.
“In precise yet lush language, these poems move so easily between the sacred and the quotidian, between past and present, and from lyric longing to physical satisfaction that it is startling to realize how much ground each poem covers, and how natural these transitions, at heart, truly are. . . . Reading his poems, I am delighted by the clarity...of [Villanueva's] writing, by the force of his belief that the materiality of the world shares something with the beauty of words.” — Paisley Rekdal, author of West: A Translation
University of Nebraska Press, 2014.
“In precise yet lush language, these poems move so easily between the sacred and the quotidian, between past and present, and from lyric longing to physical satisfaction that it is startling to realize how much ground each poem covers, and how natural these transitions, at heart, truly are. . . . Reading his poems, I am delighted by the clarity...of [Villanueva's] writing, by the force of his belief that the materiality of the world shares something with the beauty of words.” — Paisley Rekdal, author of West: A Translation
