"You pick up a Jennifer Grotz book because you want to hear that voice again, and again. She's making some of the finest work of our times. Maybe it's no surprise, then, given these times, that her newest sweep of poems– Still Falling–is a cataract of grief, a cascade of elegy that is as quietly ecstatic as it is undaunted, steady, loving life as it mourns."–Jesse Nathan, McSweeney's
"In her book's final poem, Grotz, Director of the Breadloaf Writers' Conference, quotes Robert Frost without mentioning his name. . . . Frost dismisses the question with a casually calculated–and very catchy–Yankeeism, but Grotz doesn't take the easy exit. Instead, her poem, 'In Sicily, ' like so many of the others in
Still Falling, nudges at and beyond the edges of perception in language that is gratifyingly grounded in the real world."
–David Starkey, California Review of Books "
Still Falling is an undeniably gorgeous book of love poems full of grief. In these pages, Jennifer Grotz writes line after line of direct statement in rhythms that would leave any reader breathless and wanting more: 'I will call desert this kingdom that you were, / sun this loneliness. I will say / wasp to name the fear.' I am in awe of Grotz's power to grow and transform book after book. I cannot read
Still Falling without crying."
–Jericho Brown "
Still Falling is sure to resonate for nearly all readers, as each of us carries into the collection our own losses and our own desperate need to calm."–
The Poetry Question "Bestowing many moving and lyrical insights, this deserves to be read slowly and compassionately."
–Publishers Weekly "Coming from deep inside, these poems work by free association, often alluding to falling rain, snow, and even sunlight pouring onto a surface, all of which add a spiritual resonance to these hypnotic and meditative poems."–
Diane Schraper, Library Journal