Carnival (University of Akron Press, 2012)
Jason Bredle’s night sky is as beautiful as it is scary - I’m happy to fall through it forever.
- David Kirby, author of The House on Boulevard Street,
Guggenheim and NEA fellow
Smiles of the Unstoppable (Magic Helicopter Press, 2011)
Why doesn’t he write a book about Shakespeare, or Afghanistan? The big shadow-clock keeps ticking at the end of the hall.
-Mark Halliday, author of Keep This Forever, Selfwolf, and Tasker Street,
Guggenheim fellow
Pain Fantasy (Red Morning Press, 2007)
The payoff is usually worth the hijinks, because one always gets the sense of something desperate at stake just beneath the surface of the poems. Occasionally, they can be
devastating. More often, they make for strange and memorable company.
-Boston Review
Standing in Line for the Beast (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2007)
In Standing in Line for the Beast, all becomes event, even the image actively assembles contexts for decisions, directions, regrets, and compensation. There are no empty moments;
each moment is the start of something that immediately gives birth to the next moment. The result is the decoding of pulse….the poet is clever enough to put everything into perspective
of how unstoppable the motion of existence is, in its raggedness, in its ability to seek comfort in longing for what at any other moment might not sustain, but does right now, but does
as every preceding moment feeds this incredible now.
-Thylias Moss, author of Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler and Small Congregations,
MacArthur, Guggenheim, and NEA fellow
It is difficult to enumerate the pleasures of this book.
-Barbara Hamby, author of Babel,
Guggenheim and NEA fellow