Reading as…Gantcher puts all his heart and energy into imagining what holds the world together, I hear a…beautiful tune [that]…means everything it is supposed to mean and it is so satisfying. Long live this Ghost!

—Jordan Davis, author of Yeah, No

These impassioned soliloquies are what Hamlet would have written had he not gone mad, and had Gantcher’s profound gift of negative capability. He has made way for us, and a “keyhole of instructive light.”

— Virginia Konchan, author of Requiem

In Gantcher’s poems words appear scrubbed of age and habit and exhaustion, as if stye had only just been invented.

—Larissa MacFarquhar, author of Strangers Drowning

…an Apollinaire from Brooklyn, Gantcher writes poems…that will both welcome and astonish you.

—Matthew Rohrer, author of Army of Giants

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The fabled early poems