Wilk is a poet not only of the utmost competence but brilliance.

Here is a poetable to give mature voice to the oldest and most enduring American theme: the immigrant as spiritual pilgrim. The clarity of the pilgrim voice is the admirable center of Wilk's book--as if a straight-speaking Brooklynite has been hot-wired to the mysteries at the heart of the American experience. Its a compelling voice, rising at times out of violence yet the tone it takes is often of lyric tenderness--a tenderness so rare in modern poetry it causes you to sit up straight.

--Larry Woiwode

Wilk maps new territory of the heart and the Heartland.

That's why his poetry is such a marriage with America, when divorce is impossible.

--Yevgeny Yevtushenko