Anyone

"Nate Klug's Anyone is a searching book. Its voice is quiet, vibrant, musical, and steadily, unusually, egoless. A hundred years from now someone--perhaps anyone--who wanted to know what it is like to perceive and feel, think and believe, in our times could find the answer in these poems, so touched by the past, so alert to the world in and around them. Like George Herbert's "virtue," they shine both in the day and in the night."-- "Susan Stewart, author of Columbarium and The Open Studio: Essays in Art and Aesthetics"
"Nate Klug's Anyone is a seduction by way of small astonishments revealed by a mind in the act of observation and inquiry."-- "Colorado Review"
"Anyone is a blade of a book. . . . Klug's aesthetic is a study in what restraint can open--and I want to call his poems perfect now, not as compared to anything else, but because they couldn't be another way, perfect in themselves. . . . While Bishop's presiding metaphor is the shell, Klug's is the edge: both as what cuts-through and as what's in-between. As in Bishop, the reader is shown everything and has the nagging sense that what is most important has been withheld."--Eric Ekstrand "On the Seawall"
"To the poetic imagination, the world isn't described through poetry; it is poetry, at least when the world is seen most clearly and truthfully. Klug's work offers exactly this kind of reorienting of perspective, showing us the world in all of its particularity and with all of its resonances."--Anthony Domestico "Commonweal"