"Larew’s poems crackle on the page. Brilliant and granular they also open up to deep places of the heart and soaring glimpses of what’s beyond."
Brad Erickson
South Porch Artists Residency
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"As with all his poetry This Much Very is written with an irresistible conversational musicality. His phrasing and word choice beautifully welcome the reader into a cozy vernacular, at the same time Larew maintains an unpredictability which makes each poem transformative, in the best of ways."
Peter Lilly
Poet and author of collections “An Array of Vapour” and “A Handful of Prayers”
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"Reading Hiram Larew's new collection is like having the poet in the room—conversational, quirky and immediate poems jostle for attention, bringing people and places to life with vibrant imagery and naturalistic language."
Andy Jackson
Editor Poetry Scotland
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"The rich, untethered language of Hiram’s poetry frees me from my habit of linear thinking, finding unexpectedly meaningful connections between unlikely things, feelings, and experiences. At the core of his work is an ability to accept, with a loving equanimity, the daily and enduring grievances that trouble the rest of us."
Russell Hart
Photographer and author
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"Excerpt of a Poem “Hiram’s Poetry”
His poetry settles deep inside us,
as if finding its final home.
We become enriched and enchanted
as we stroll down the serpentine paths
of a life more sacred because of Hiram’s poetry!"
Neal Grace
Poet
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"These are compassionate poems of both acceptance and striving, and they will delight you again and again:
‘…whenever you run for cover / under thundering goodness / all rakes get tossed love-like / up in the air.’"
— Lucille Lang Day
Author of Birds of San Pancho and Other Poems of Place and Becoming
an Ancestor, editor of Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California
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"Absorbing Hiram Larew's This Much Very, I feel the freedom of poetry leaping into ecstatic language, leaping toward love, acceptance, and awareness. In these times of too much shadow, we very much need this source of exuberant poetry."
Sandra Yannone
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"Would you choose to be a torch-trumpeted cloud or march for the moon’s glowing? Do you believe in wonder? Then come soft barely into Hiram Larew’s This Much Very and go larking all loop-de-loop with him on this soul-searching ars poetica, this moving quest for love."
Terry Bohnhorst Blackhawk
One Less River
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"There is a freedom of spirit in the new poems from Hiram Larew’s This Very Much. Freedom to say the difficult words. Freedom to celebrate joyous moments that only poetry allows entrance to understand. A barren field of
wheat dust gives way to a gratitude as sweet as cherries on a branch. Longing and hope find room for their truth in the lines. Love is in there too. It's wonderful poetry!"
Elizabeth Gracen
Editor, Flapper Press
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"...a fascinating interplay of words - brought together as unpredictable partners—in embracing dances of self-discovery."
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