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"Jay Ruzesky creates and re-creates Eden – its passions, its beauties, its losses. So, that's what he writes about. But how does he write it? With passion, with beauty, with loss."
-P.K. Page
"Herein is a poem which spends most of its time and lines showing us a hotel maid standing before the sign on a bedroom door and imagining, behind that door, "Two whose mouths are so full of each other,/ they cannot speak, or be disturbed," and another one, "Glass Eye," which offers "He looks at me with his good eye,/ dark socket also aiming." You feel that Jay Ruzesky can do these Eros-driven and clear-as-glass things all night and half the next day, so apparently effortlessly do they line up on his pages. This is a fine sequel to Painting the Yellow House Blue."
-Don Coles
"Ruzesky’s poems convince me that the last, most difficult revolution is in the head. After all the other struggles to arrive here – this North American safety: its comforts, its sustenance – it is precisely this place of driveways, mortgages, monogamy, children, strip malls, all the longing and restlessness in this place [“the mess we’re making of our lives”] – that is Ruzesky’s territory, and he’s making a great map of it."
-John Lent