"My Window Seat For Arlena Twigg is as eccentric as its title. It is also brilliant -- poem after poem of compression and a rare, quirky intensity of feeling. This book is long overdue (he has been serving our literature in other ways) from a poet who has learned his trade, his craft, and makes his own indelible music."
“James Reidel’s debut collection is a marvel — partly because of the spare, unfussy elegance of his style, but more importantly because of an oddness of perception, a searching quality that makes these wry and bittersweet poems resemble those of almost no one else. Few first books of poetry possess this degree of confidence and maturity of vision.”
