Rob Schlegel does nothing short of renewing the power of American English to tell truths worth telling. He asks questions worth asking; he pushes the power of the language just a little bit further than we ever thought it would go, reminding us not just who we are but who we might become. - Katie Peterson
I will never forget the moment, years ago, when I was sitting at my desk in Missoula and looked out the window to see, standing in my yard, Rob Schlegel holding out to me a large yellow fruit. He appeared an apparition. I think it was a grapefruit. I say remember, but I feel remembered by it, and by the look of wonder on Rob’s face, because that is the experience, for me, of reading Childcare: of being invited into the unexpected, often disarming, always arresting presence of his attention and his discoveries, and being inspired, by them, to get up, break the window, and seek out, for myself and the people I love, my own indelible fruit. - Brandon Shimoda
“These skillful poems are full of affective feeling and thinking.” (Publisher’s Weekly, starred review)
