Praise for SIX
"This book of historical persona poems, spoken by the six wives of Henry VIII, could only have been written by a poet of prodigious imaginative powers, skill, and an enormous curiosity. That poet is Eve Wood and SIX is a wonderful book." Thomas Lux
"Eve Wood's haunted and haunting ventriloquisms of sixteenth-century women remind me of John Berryman's hallucinatory Mistress Bradstreet. Like Berryman, Wood shows us what might be made of history if poets had their way. Michael Collier
"Wood's use of returning and startling imagery pulls us into the haunting and heartless atmosphere into which each [ of Henry VIII's wives] was thrown by marriage. [ ...] Equally remarkable ar the poet's divinings into these women's relationships with God and nature." Kate Knapp Johnson
"Gorgeous and chilling." Gail Willumsen
"These poems are a benediction nuanced, so perfectly crafted in their loveliness [ ...] smart, savvy, tender and in many places, elegant and wise. Buy this book, and live more richly!"John Fairfield Rice
Praise for past works
"Remarks on Color is a luminous tapestry of prose poetry that invites readers to embark on a chromatic odyssey. Woods stunning synthesis of familiar reality and surreal exaggeration illuminates the complex relationships, emotions and cultural associations we share with these spectral entities. As the amused reader considers the significance of each color in their own personal spectrum, Wood serves up a feast and critique of the colorful world in which we live. Tyler Stallings
"Employing the fictive voice of a former president, Eve Wood shifts the perspective on the happenings of our times where all indicators point to the slow, inexorable collapse of the American Experiment to the one man who represents the very heart of our onetime democracy and the towering soul of this once-revered nation: Abraham Lincoln. A Cadence for Redemption is a work of narrative brilliance, the arc and architecture of which is seemingly upheld by the merest of lyrical tentpoles that, in all their brevity, of the poems themselves. Yet the ideas across the collection, and the emotive carry in each one of these songs of love, songs of longing and loss, are as equally affecting as they are disquieting; they are as well, in their grand sum, entirely profound. " Christopher von Hassett, Riot Material
Quickened by passion and imagination, the body of poems that makes up Loves Funeral is astoundingly alive. Mark Strand
Praise for Eve Wood
"As a lay reader, I found [ Wood's] poetry rich, challenging and instinct with energy." Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's Ark
