"A writer of fiction (much of it hilarious) and essays both scholarly and personal (often the product of deep study), as well as a teacher who has opened the minds of generations of students, Louis Gallo is a poet of many dimensions..."—Ralph Adamo, editor The Xavier Review, author of Ever

"...But reliant as he is on such colossi of often abstract, complex ideas, his poems first and foremost are always anchored with keen wit in the grit and gristle of a living world, one Gallo clearly finds both intoxicating and erotic..."—Randall R. Freisinger, author of Plato's Breath, winner of the May Swenson Poetry Prize, Utah State University Press