"William Olsen's Trouble Lights is the kind of book you'll willingly let break your heart because Olsen makes our mortality at once terrible and irresistible. . . . [W]e remember what we come to poetry for . . . the thrill of the alive with all its risks and mercies." —Beckian Fritz Goldberg, author of Never Be the Horse
"Olsen reminds us that poetry is a difficult and essential art, not a parlor game, not an effete posture. We are fortunate that poems such as his exist." —David Wojahn, author of Strange Good Fortune
