Reviews of The Window Facing Winter
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"Gerry LaFemina in The Window Facing Winter, an intense, intimate, and intelligent new collection of poems, is not afraid to touch and be touched by the extraordinary grit and grind of each new day and its aftermath. The startling moments of vision in these poems are as radiant, elegant, and precise as they are hard-edged—charting, as they do, the vast distances of the American landscape and the long and lonely road home. They are heartrending in their tenderness and dignity."

––Eric Pankey

"In The Window Facing Winter, the urgency of the beautiful and sometimes murderous urban landscape, set alongside the seductive, intricate oasis of the Japanese garden, renders possible a vision into ‘a sliver of the absolute.’ With unflinching accuracy, LaFemina delivers a sacred, if momentary, world, laying bare its essential loneliness, its obstinate beauty."

––Robin Behn

Praise for Shattered Hours:

“LaFemina’s work is grounded in this world and full of tenderness and compassion toward all of the awkward things and people who lurch through life here—his affection and humor are in every line of these poems.”

—Jean Valentine

Praise for 23 Below:

“Lonely, icy and restless, these poems traverse the landscapes of urban disaffection with quick intelligence, formal inventiveness, and almost as much desperation as our times themselves.”

—Mark Doty

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