Clutching Lambs: An[niversary] Anthology

"- Philip Gross"

"Language, that fluid and evolving medium, is here expertly plied and animated to confront the dilemma of depiction and to convey the nearly unsayable. Janet Passehl is not just a careful observer, but a scrupulous constructor of poems so unsettling, tender, inventive, and mysterious that savvy readers are sure to embrace "Clutching Lambs.""

"- Jeanne Marie Beaumont"

"The mood of Janet Passehl's marvelous collection is wintry, a chiaroscuro of sudden bright flashes and shadowy figures: a child, an architect, two gray animals. We're in a lapidary dreamscape where interior and exterior worlds collide as an exhalation: 'that cannot be breached/by sermon/how the prow of a ship breaks ice/is how language moves.'"

"- Ann Lauterbach"