Recognition
“Held’s poems are so full of keenly heard sounds, sharply observed sights, sly and sympathetic humor, and enjoyed experience that it is easy to fall in love with them. . . . The poems are about fishing, relaxing with the Packers on TV or a bottle of bourbon, remembering burning the trash outdoors, skipping church of a Sunday, and imagining the glaciers creating the Midwest. . . Set in Wisconsin and Montana, they are poems of the Northwest, gusts of sweet, cold, enlivening air.”–Booklist
