"Although the prosaic world poisons us with stale images and recycled situations, Rob Griffith's Poisoning Caesar revives us. Writing with a nuanced ear and conversant with the poetic tradition, Griffith stuns us with the freshness of his voice. He offers us a fan's wedding proposal in the seventh-inning stretch, a poet's muse who suffers from Tourette's Syndrome, and a poetry reading where an audience member is Death, literally. What delight, what depth, lurk inside these covers."

--Beth Ann Fennelly

"Rob Griffith is the kind of poet I want to talk to me about everything, and in these poems he does--from high rollers to Hamlet. I called him a poet, but he’s a composer too, and writes as though he was born knowing just where singing and silence belong."

--Alison Pelegrin

"Like the cartographer in the book's opening poem, Robert Griffith maps a rich, wide-ranging imagination "to find his own heart" in these beautiful, shrewd, expertly crafted poems. Poisoning Caesar is a wonderful find."

--Greg Williamson