CELESTIALS by Robert Lima

“Robert Lima‘s statement is pure, untrouble by trends and isms. His observations dart, like light on water, from image to image, each with surprising allusions.”

–Willis Barnstone

“Thanks for sending the poems… it is a special pleasure to have y0ur work.”

–Paul Engle

“The poems that get to me the strongest are the ones colloquial, imagist and rhythmically strong or, put another way, in which the rhythm is quite pronounced and often forceful, which sound to me the most natural and free flowing and apparently come from deep with you.”

–David Ignatow

“You have the courage to address very basic things with strength and a few well-chosen words. It’s a tough thing to do and I admire it.”

–Paul Zimmer

“In ‘Astrals,’ …Through the meditative poems’ resonating final image of the body’s desire for a return to its origin, to a place among the stars, Lima integrates the beginnings of the universe and humankind, even as the entire poem shows how much we long to, and fail to, understand fully the nature of that most primal connection..”

–Sandra Meek