The Occasionist

California’s former Poet Laureate Al Young notes the earthly divinity of Curt’s work: “Lushly descriptive, Curt Anderson’s poems survey and weigh the soulful properties of an everyday life at which “silence arrives.” In ways that dare, stun or delight, his watchful poems signal divinity. Again and again, they point to the vast outback of mysteries that occasion lifejammed moments that cry out or whisper.”

New York Times-bestselling author Ellen Sussman (French Lessons, A Wedding in Paradise) is taken with Anderson’s humor: “Curt Anderson is a master of language, of imagery, of sound. He writes with a clarity and an intensity that astonishes me. And he makes me laugh – few poets can do that.”

Author Jeanne Wagner (In the Body of our Lives) considers Anderson’s work alternately poignant and hilarious: “In The Occasionist, Curt Anderson’s first full-length book, he already shows himself as a master of language. These are modern poems in the best sense, full of daring associations and unexpected turns of phrase, playful yet accessible. This is a sensibility that fuses nature and the mundane clutter of the world into its own idiosyncratic metaphor. His poems inhabit a place filled with “great orchards of ripening geometry,” and with “the sadness of machines/of tears and their silk wheels.” His range is broad enough to demonstrate both poignancy – as in the poems of his father’s decline and death -- and outright hilarity (‘Platonic Love,’ ‘The Auto Body Shop’). In ‘Holiday in the Sun,’ he says, “I want this to be my life: filling my mind/with the music of chosen light.” It is his life, and he has generously shared it with us.”

New York Times-bestselling author Lolly Winston (Happiness Sold Separately, Good Grief) is inspired by the accessibility of Anderson’s work: Curt Anderson’s work is so original, fresh, funny and poignant and -- I hate to use the cliche -- but here goes: accessible. I especially like the way he anthropomorphizes objects and emotions in his poems. You read the lines and think “Yes! Ha!”

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