Soviet Poems

The value of his work is not that it is narrowly relevant to topical fashions or news events . . . But that it is written out of a fully orchestrated consciousness which takes as its frame of referance the entire panorama of what we have been and are becoming.

-George Amabile.

Ralph Gustafson has a way all his own of fusing music and passion with sophisticated feelings and graceful craft...His sensitive judgements rise from a warm heart.

-- Earle Birney