"His most ambitious book to date, Fleeing Actium is Pau-Llosa's summa, the volume that his earlier work has been preparing us for. It gathers and showcases all of the generative modules of his poetry: the ekphrastic, the philosophical, the other-cultural, the musical, the mundane. As well, it reflects Pau-Llosa's continuing exploration of the sonnet form, whose flexibility and expressive reach make for some of the finest moments in the book. Rich, various and challenging, Fleeing Actium further secures Pau-Llosa's position as one of the strongest voices in contemporary American poetry."– "Gustavo Pérez Firmat"