"...I love your direct, strong, audible translations. You convey the poems as poems....I hear her voice, more of it, and in a new pitch, which makes something clear in her poems that I had only guessed at before." --W.S. Merwin

"...You do wonders with a poet nearly impossible to translate. I'm impressed." --Charles Simic

"I write to thank you for your kind gift of Tsvetaeva. Your versions are intensely eloquent...." --Harold Bloom

"...thank you for the magnificent Tsvetaeva--some of your versions haunt me, like 'stares at the night with her last eyes.' Powerful, & all the way over into English...." --Robert Kelly