whether interior or exterior, more keenly and poignantly. Here is a poet who listens to language and lets it lead him into the heart of the poem with authority and grace.
--Kathryn Stripling Byer, author of Wildwood Flower and Black Shawl.
Holt's poems are as vivid as photographs, as stark at times as Walker Evans, as warm as Doris Ullman.
--Robert Morgan, author of Gap Creek and The Strange Attractor.