"Laurie Kuntz possesses the most important ingredients for an impressive body of poetry. She has depth of character, talent to spare, and a strong sense of the subjects which have chosen her. Thanks to her experience as a teacher of Southeast Asian refugees in the Phillipines and Thailand, she has seen, as few Americans have, the lingering human cost of our war in Indochina. Her experience has made her speak with empathy and compasion about the displaced lives she has encountered, and has also caused her to struggle - as sadly few American poets have - with the most essential issues of history, politics, and the nature of survivorhood."
- David Wojahn, Winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Awards, Winner of the William Carlos Williams Book Award, Recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships
