"A remarkable book: nothing has brought me so close to poetry in years. Made for rereading and re-encouraging." –Michael Heller, author of Telescope: Selected Poems
"Where Did Poetry Come From is no conventional memoir… [O'Brien] trains his sensitive, meticulous instruments of attention and his eloquent prose style upon his own poetic origins…Poetry is a dream without end, and O'Brien is our witness to its continuity." –Norman Finkelstein, author of The Ratio of Reason to Magic: New and Selected Poems
