Still on Earth

“David Romtvedt’s particular alchemy is to embody his poems fully in the senses even as they draw on an ethereal oneness that finds as much room in the firmament for our absurdities as for our graces.” ~Teresa Jordan

“The poems in Still on Earth are deeply serious yet cheerily absurdist. . . . Clear and straightforward, Romtvedt’s poems are filled with surprises, with undercurrents rising to the surface.” ~Mary Swander

“Romtvedt renders encounters—whether alien, angelic, or everyday—in a finely tuned voice that is unassuming but incisive, and always profoundly moving. Still on Earth opens splendidly with ‘Interstellar’ being the best poem about aliens and French-speaking dogs I've seen in a long time.” ~William Wenthe

“Romtvedt’s subjects are big and significant—mortality, love, wonder, fear, the enormous and self-evident mystery that is time. But he speaks of and to these immemorial poetic themes in exceptionally lucid and yet sidelong terms, because he knows—he says so, directly—that ‘the universe belongs to those who dance,’ and in speaking so he makes us hope, and believe, that that is true.” ~Robert Wrigley