Solonche, J. R.: It's About Time

Deerbrook Editions, paperback

Publication Date: January 20, 2023

Publisher Marketing: If you met this book in a bar, you'd want to take it home with you.

"The best feature of Solonche's poetry is its diversity. Everyone who encounters this volume (including the postman who delivers it to you) will find something in it to understand and remember--and a great deal to enjoy."--Tony Beyer

"J.R.Solonche's many books of poetry, one nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, reveal a wry and vivid wit, a sharp but sympathetic eye, and a respect for the homely but significant detail, all wedded to an acute social and cultural consciousness. In his imaginative progress through city streets and country roads, the commonplace becomes the extraordinary ... In lines full of mischief or romance, gaiety or grief, he is the poet of the every day, spent on earth or in an imaginary heaven."--Judith Farr

"The tone is established from the outset: wry, wise, sardonic and playful, drawing the reader irresistibly in. Solonche is revealed as a philosopher in the mould of Wittgenstein: aphoristic, charismatic, acerbic and oddly mystical. If you met this book in a bar, you would definitely want to take it home with you and every day thereafter congratulate yourself on how lucky you've been. But that is true of all his books."--David Mark Williams

"These poems catch the reader off-guard in playful profundity. While always mindful of the tradition of poetry masquerading as direct statement (the likes of W.C. Williams, Robert Bly, Robert Creeley, and Charles Bukowski), J.R. Solonche nevertheless 'makes it new, ' through his masterful use of understatement, aphorism, word play, and anaphora--raising poem after insightful poem from the familiar and often overlooked 'little things' of the poet's day-to-day encounter with the world."--Phillip Sterling.