Reviews of Mark Halperin Titles
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Praise for The Measure of Islands
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"Halperin feel his way into the moment through a registry of observation and memory. A reader can follow: this poet is centered; he is alert, he understands. His objectivity and tone of voice invite us to open our attention. His very reticence to say what he knows reveals it."

—Marvin Bell

"The old unmindful Taost ideal that the truth of the end of suffering can only be experienced and never told is refused many times in Halperin’s lively new collection of poems. There are those raids on the unspeakable that we long to here, and there is an earthly and cosmic noise which the poet exchanges simply for music and silence. This is a wonderful book."

—Norman Dubie

Praise for A Place Made Fast
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"Mark Halperin's poems are full of the narrative energy of people and places, real and dreamed, yet they never lose their lyric grace. This is an original and compelling book."

–Linda Pastan