The Waking Hours: Poems & Translations

What a pleasure to encounter not only Jacqueline Michaud's sly, probing, passionate poems but also her deft translations from the French. Jacqueline Michaud is a trickster with an aesthetic conscience, a wry rebel who recognizes how deep our shallow social lies run and how much feeling informs our passing premonitions. -- Baron Wormser, former Poet Laureate of Maine.

The pleasures in Jacqueline Michaud's The Waking Hours are considerable, high among them, for me, language honed and keenly heard...a book of attitudes in search of their formalities, which again and again she finds. A wonderful debut. -- Stephen Dunn, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Literature.