“Harker Shaw shows us the terrible joy of life lived on the very precipice of love and art's volcano. The poetry is here, and the personalities, and the storms – meteorological, social and familial – that readers will expect, but also a historical frame that holds us at enough of a distance that we aren't consumed along with those poor, suffering lovers. And wound through it all they give an innovative poetic dialogue that, in the end, shows us Mary and Bysshe afresh – triumphantly, tragically – as equals in love and words.”
– Jonathan Gibbs, author of The Large Door, and Randal: Or the Painted Grape