J. R. Solonche has been nominated for the National Book Award and twice-nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, he is the author of thirty-four books of poetry and coauthor of another. He lives in the Hudson Valley..

Other poems by J. R. Solonche in Verse Daily:
September 8, 2022:   "Perseus" "I almost peeked...."
December 11, 2021:   "A Reading" "Silence...."

Books by J.R. Solonche:

Other poems on the web by J.R. Solonche:
"Life"
"False Messiah"
"Slipper"
"Cinderella"
Five poems
"I Often Walk to the End of the Road"
Two poems
"Go Out and Listen to the Frogs"
"While I Waited There"
"The Poem of the Future"
Three poems
"Botanical Garden"

J.R. Solonche's Website.

About The Book of a Small Fisherman:

"These short poems are an extraordinary amalgam of wit, close observation, humor, and clear-seeing. Each one singles out and illuminates an ordinary moment-ordinary, that is, until the poet explodes into a miniature epiphany. Easy of access and frequently profound, J. R. Solonche's poems induce in me a state of delighted surprise."
—Chase Twichell

"The history of book blurbs is littered with high falutin' praise, whacky and wild metaphors, written to impress not to inform. All I need to say about J. R. Solonche's poems is that they are good, really, really good. So much so that they have a high 'I-wish-I'd-written-that' factor. That's a compliment I hand out to very few poets writing today. You want wit? You want humor? You want erudition? You want them all mixed into poems? Try Solonche. You won't be disappointed. Envious perhaps, but not disappointed."
—Sarah White

"Sample one by one these epigrammatic, epiphenomenal, Epicurean episodes as if they were puffs from a tower of pastry. Savor the zest of lemon, the pinch of sea salt, the dollop of creme fraiche, and the absence of any more sugar than necessary to ease the ingestion of truth. A feast for fanatics of language and lovers of pith. I'm not sure what pith is, but I know it when I see it."
—John Murphy