“Paradise Close is breathtaking novel—from one of the most exquisite poets of our day—has the dark power of a fairy tale. I read it all in one sitting, in thrall to the spell Lisa Russ Spaar casts.”—Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year and A Fortunate Age
“Urgent, hungry, and unabashedly sensual, Spaar arrives time and again at visceral and eviscerating epiphanies.”— Andy Nicole Bowers, Boston Review
“The poems are often erotic, but their sexiness is transformed by the greater questions and wonderment Spaar reaches toward. . . . filled with the desire for life, for the world, for surprise.”—L. A. Johnson, Los Angeles Review of Books
“Lisa Russ Spaar is a poet who can save us.”—Kelly Cherry, Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts
