"Karen Garthe writes some of the most expert–and tightly-wound–lyric poems you'll ever read. . . . If discussions of the sort Karen Garthe is performing in The Banjo Clock . . . don't really interest you, that's okay: Just stop reading poetry right now, pick up your favorite beach novella, and forget the world's oldest form of literary currency still exists in any appreciable volume. . . . What Garthe is offering today's poetry readers is a reason to read poetry rather than prose."–Seth Abramson "Huffington Post" (10/24/2012 12:00:00 AM)