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A lexical surgeon, Good takes little to no time to cut into a moment, revealing the heart as it lays there, exposed and previously misdiagnosed… He thrusts you into a scene, steps back and watches you manipulate the power within a split second. You will be tested mentally, emotionally…. Laced with quick, clean incisions, his poems are a crisp reflection of a skilled poet… I would wholeheartedly recommend this collection to anyone in the mood to be moved.

—Mimi Ferebee, Red Ochre Lit, October 2011 issue.

With these twenty brief vignettes, Howie Good strips language back to its bare essentials, distilling meaning into a series of single powerful shots. An impressive start to Diamond Point Press’ twenty20 Chapbook Series.

—Jon Pinnock, Author of Mrs. Darcy vs. the Aliens

As with positing–that is, poem-ing–that “a crumpled napkin / was all Degas needed / to do a sky,” Howie Good only needed to be attentive to his world to create the many, varied universes possible through poems. That is, from the smallest of details he creates the deepest implications, and does so with a pleasing finesse.

—Eileen R. Tabios, poet, Editor of Galatea Resurrects, mother of the hay(na)ku

Not a single word is out of place, every one of them matters and is selected and used with skill and a feeling for craft…The world depicted in these poems is far from cosy – no room for soft platitudes here. We are in “dilapidated backstreets” in the company of gunmen and “suicide bombers in dynamite vests.” This is a crumpled, collapsing world of doubt and confusion.

—Mandy Pannett, Author of The Onion Stone and three poetry collections, Teacher, Editor of TheRightEyedDeer.

Each Good word a heart-headed stalactite, poems a cavern battered by the smallest front-page raven. Carnage-mongers, our time is moot.

—Chris Vola’s 20-word review of Love in a Time of Paranoia. Vola is now the Chapbook Reviewer for Short, Fast & Deadly.