Reviews of Rain Through High Windows
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"In the beautiful structures of Rain Through High Windows we meet a poet at nearly perfect peace with change, a poet gifted to shape masses with the most astonishing delicacy. Hoeppner is an architectural clairvoyant, and he reveals the eternal farewell encoded in all forms. I have never said this of any other poet of my generation, and I say it with absolute certainty: Edward Haworth Hoeppner is a Poet of the Sublime."

–Donald Revell

"With an elegant shapeliness to the rhythm and a rhythmic elegance to the shape, these poems lift out graciously from the self into lush, sensuous landscapes. They are testimonies to the wisdom that it isn't so much the loudest voice we hear that stays with us the longest, but the quiet voice. The one that dives down deeply and settles in."

–Nance Van Winckel

"Edward Haworth Hoeppner has written an almost heroically original book that does double duty as a document of compelling and genuine tenderness for others. No poems that I know are more uninsistent, yet, for living in these poems, the reader comes away changed. Hoeppner is a very smart poet, yet his accomplishment rises from his simultaneous faith in the imagination and in a forthright and loving artfulness. He comes off sounding like no one else in the world."

–Rodney Jones