"An ambitious, richly imaginative work that poses vital questions about truth, authorship and narrative possibility in contemporary literature."-- "International Examiner"
"Erasurists find their imaginative space by reading creatively. One of the genre's most creative readers in Srikanth Reddy. Not only is his erasure, the book Voyager, conceptually captivating, but the writing is amazing. Let me repeat that: the writing is amazing."-- "Believer Magazine"
"Instantly aphoristic, with the cultural authority of familiar music, Book One alone is enough to secure a poetic reputation. . . . Voyager is an indication of what is possible in the form. For its remarkable innovation, panoramic lyricism, and utter empathy, it may well endure."-- "Harvard Review"
"Reddy has fashioned an arresting, very personal voice by committing himself to using only words and phrases that appeared in--wait for it--Kurt Waldheim's memoirs. In lesser hands, this could have been just another preposterous "project" book. Reddy is so gifted that the poems, despite their weighty origins, soar."-- "New Yorker"
"The paradoxical lives of historical figures have long inspired poets, a tradition Reddy embraces and transforms in his audacious, deeply interrogative second collection. . . . Nuanced yet piercing."-- "Booklist"
"These recastings form a highly ambitious book of political poetry that speaks hauntingly of our world."-- "Publishers Weekly"
"Through Reddy's 'erasures' and the negative capabilities of his excavated text we feel, even if we cannot see, what's missing, what's gone--into outer space, into self-denial, into the ironies of history and of the role between the wielders of pens and of swords. We find ourselves--culpable, impressionable, alive--in the human space he has created."-- "Chronicle Of Higher Education"