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Praise for Neither Rising Nor Falling:

“In this brilliant debut, the poems of Neither Rising or Falling trace a journey from refracted memory to clear-eyed presence. Voigt asks us no less than to “surrender the world.” This sublimely honest voice leads us from sorrow and futility to intimacy and moments of secular grace. Sumptuous lyrics confirm that poetry must give pleasure even when it bears witness to the intricacies of beginnings and deaths. His poems affirm that being “in love with dark matter / is to awake to the gravity pulling one inward.”

-Kathleen Halme

 

“Jeremy Voigt lives and writes “among the richest / depressed people in the world,” a bankrupt world where two-headed coins lead us to harsh truths via their deception. But this serves only as a context, not a subject, for our poet who finds mythical sustenance in the most mundane events, whose poetry provides a spiritual map for a people whose gods have deserted them. Herein lies a fortune neither moth nor rust can corrupt.”  
—Timothy Liu