Routine Heaven

Winner of the 2005 Texas Review Poetry Prize

"Myers' main strength is providing order and clarity for powerful emotions through a deceptively plain-speaking style. . . . These well-crafted poems arrive through varied and circuitous routes at moments of true feeling."-New York Times Book Review

"Myers' work has long been known for its wit, humor, and crazy reflections on contemporary life, all reinforcing a usually painful theme or awareness. The cliché 'laughed till I cried' comes to mind, with irony. Big irony."-American Poetry Review

"That the brilliance of Jack Myers' poetry is not widely known and spoken of has baffled me for a long time. He is as swift-witted as Hermes, wickedly knowledgeable of human nature, tragically funny and hilariously forgiving. This is a sleekly-crafted poetry of metaphorical daring and acrobatic insight, and it is also profound human art."-Tony Hoagland, author of Sweet Ruin