Hongyun
New and Collected Shorter Poems
1955-2005
Praise for J. Michael Yates
"When Yates and I first met and had dinner at the University of Missouri, he was an undergraduate. His work was brilliant then. This I told him and his department head. This Canticle for Electronic Music underscores the acuity of my forecasting." — W.H. Auden, The Quest
"With great admiration for your work." — Joyce Carol Oates
"I appreciate this poet's concentration, swiftness, density: his choice for the deeply personal utterance and that only. He wastes no time with exercises, set themes, and other conventional maneuvers." — Henry Rago, editor, Poetry
"He is violent and unpredictable...has a wild, unconventional imagination." — James Dickey
"J. Michael Yates is the most lively and original writer of his generation." — Robin Skelton
"Michael Yates is a great poet who has given us such a universe. I consider his The Great Bear Lake Meditations to be by far the most ambitious and successful meditative poem ever written in Canada." — Fred Cogswell