“Charles Hansmann has written a book of tremendous restraint and tremendous, lucid beauty, as appealing in its refusals as it is in its graces and the surprising music of its uncluttered stanzas. The sophisticated intelligence of the poems is revealed through the tension they maintain, almost word by word, between the insistent rigors of the art and craft of poetry and the laconic detachment or nonchalance offered as the poet’s world view. They are, in a way, charmingly unimpressed by their own circumspection and precision.”
—Gail Wronsky
