"Nouns & Verbs is a lifelong manifesto on joy and vigor, a message in a bottle for all of us who 'scrabble within the skin of time / like mice in the belly of a boa constrictor.'" – Tracy K. Smith
"A book of extraordinary poetic energy...We finish this book with the sense that we have traveled far and wide in our country with a guide who is by turns fascinated and distressed, amazed by its rich materials and deeply disappointed with what has been done with them." – Carl Dennis
"Campbell McGrath never fails to capture the velocity of America 'in all its splendid yearning to be lost and longing to belong.'... Nouns & Verbs reminds us of McGrath's singular, essential stature in contemporary American poetry." – Terrance Hayes
"McGrath's absorbing, amusing, and reflective traveling music entices us on the road yet again." – Booklist (starred review)