Advanced Praise for Reveille
“I love Liza Hudock’s poems, for their tact and their feeling, their amusement and curiosity, their skill and attractive oddity, their clarity and complication, their fascinations and quiet audacities, all in the service of thinking about—among other things—family relationships, familial troubles, and the experience of great loss. At any given time, poets, maybe especially young poets, can start to seem a great deal like one another in their subjects and techniques, but Hudock’s Reveille seems to me a book like no one else’s, of this or, really, any moment. She’s the real thing.”—Daisy Fried
"Liza Hudock is an original, rare as midnight lace obsidian. Her poems are spare, taut, denuded of ornament. The world, in poem after poem, somehow transfigures into the personal with startling effect. Wonder abounds. A magnificent, memorable debut."—August Kleinzahler
"Here is a world in which the dead mother’s angel arrives in the 'clean, bright mouths' of the dogs, in which 'mycelium adorns the roots like a lace glove.’ Elegy or ode, personal history or menagerie—these pithy poems are as elegant and wise as they are whimsical. It’s as if each line rides the razor-thin balance between inevitability and surprise. 'White wisp in the corner of my eye. / I try to look at it directly and it’s gone.' I really love these poems. They make me feel more alive. Liza Hudock’s Reveille is a standout debut.”—Sally Keith