Praise for OneOnOne

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

OneOnOne is a book about pain, the spiritual desolation of a last man standing after murderous struggle with parents, childhood, lust, desire, loneliness, God/no God, salvation versus no way out. The speaker, pieces of him missing, parts of him ravaged, lets a weird wind moan and howl through every wound in his heart, head, and loins.
—Li-Young Lee 

Jack Myers is true to the simultaneous hoo-ha cockamamie carnival of voices in the human heart, where Martin Buber and Monty Python are always vying for air-time. This is a very fine collection, and it makes our vernacular snap?
—Albert Goldbarth 

Stylish in their pretense of being without style, wise in their pretense of just fooling around, Myers’s poems take us to a place beyond their irony and salutary laughter where we can once again trust in sanity, tenderness, tolerance, freedom, art, and love.
—Seamus Heaney