"The Day Underneath the Day is very much a book of inquiry: how do we negotiate safe passage over the mare incognita that is variously art and the making of it, the body and the mystery of it, identity both inherited and imposed? These are poems of formal grace and slant homage, map-and-dazzle, a vision as lush as it is-refreshingly-exacting."
--Carl Phillips, author of Pastoral
"This book is dignified, subtle, feelingful, and delicate. I admire the understated thoughtfulness of many of these poems, their willingness to flirt with the metaphysical while remaining deeply motivated by the visual, tactile world."
--Rosanna Warren, author of Stained Glass
"Accomplished. . . . [C. Dale Young's] style is sensuous and fine, with a special care for the exact word."
—Donald Justice
