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Aaron Anstett's new collection has the qualities we expect from this distinctive American poet: a just imprecise enough ("exactish") sense of beauty, a polished, often comic, wit, and, just beneath the crystalline surface, deep wells of unflinching and darkly rational sorrow. New here, though, is a fragility that may also be, strangely, a kind of "late-stage" freedom: a radically fractured incompleteness, tremblingly grasping towards what can ...

The sapient roaches of our planetary future, when they seek to understand the sickening dismay, abysmal grief and goofy absurdity of the Anthropocene in Donald Trumps America, will reach for their dog-eared (or bug-horned) copies of Aaron Anstetts Please State the Nature of Your Emergency. In these impossibly crystalline poems, Anstett has distilled from the ironic bile of our vast, unbearable tragedy the steely essence of our predicament.

Poetry. THIS WAY TO THE GRAND AS-IS is a snapshot of Aaron Anstett's career so far: the author's own selections from six previous collections, from SUSTENANCE (1997) to PLEASE STATE THE NATURE OF YOUR EMERGENCY (2017), plus twenty-seven new poems. From the beginning, Anstett's work has been driven by a restless attention and lyrical ear. He is a poet of surprise and wit and wonder.

These poems turns laconic and garrulous, hard-boiled and tender, magnify gaps and unreliabilities in the surface of things through which the depths of an underlying desolation, a nameless existential care, and the mystery of love may be glimpsed, they make a swaying bridge over the abyss of loss. "Number among my umpteen flaws detached glibness", he writes, "Who would disagree that little's glitchless?" What he calls his glibness, transmitted ...

Winner of The Backwaters Prize for 2004. "Now I'd like to add to that list of singular poets the name of Aaron Anstett, whose book No Accident is unlike any book of American poems I've ever read before."--Philip Levine, from the Judge's statemen

Culture's cloud chamber and its millions of random vectors drive Aaron Anstett's INSOFAR AS HERETOFORE. 'Whatever scintillants' he calls them in 'One Theory, ' an exclamation that's half-prayer and half come-and-get-me bravado. The poems catch our socio-linguistic lightning flashes, at times fusing the erotic and the spiritual. This book is original and beautiful."—Michael Heller