No Spare People
" Erin Hoover's second collection, No Spare People, recalls to me the sobering effect of encountering Adrienne Rich's work in the late ' 80s. These poems deal in reality, eschewing the fantastic ... This is a deeply intellectual and expertly wrought collection." -- Cate Marvin
" These are hard poems in that they press far past the facile reductive binaries of good and evil, savior and saved, and into something-- a lyric, a voice-- that feels a little more complicated, a little more like our own world." -- Kaveh Akbar
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"Erin Hoover's second collection, NO SPARE PEOPLE, recalls to me the sobering effect of encountering Adrienne Rich's work in the late '80s. These poems deal in reality, eschewing the fantastic ... This is a deeply intellectual and expertly wrought collection." --Cate Marvin
"The poems in NO SPARE PEOPLE illuminate the injustices of income inequality, misogyny, womanhood and motherhood in America with an expanse of time and geography." --K. Iver
"In the mother-daughter family of NO SPARE PEOPLE, everyone is essential--one parent, one child--with truly no one to spare. This collection explores the difficulties of such economy within our particular economy ... Yet the poems do not give up, continually questioning the constraints of an American South." --Jessica Jacobs
"These are hard poems in that they press far past the facile reductive binaries of good and evil, savior and saved, and into something--a lyric, a voice--that feels a little more complicated, a little more like our own world." --Kaveh Akbar
