Poetry, if it is about anything at all, is about voice. Foremost, it's the voice that makes all the difference between good poetry and great poetry. Darryl Price is a great poet. He is a poet of voice. Even more than that - he is the poet of direct address. His poems leap off the page and embrace you. To be in his company is to be in the best company you can imagine.
You want to know joy? Read Darryl Price. He is consistently inventive, consistently engaging, and consistently surprising. What's his message? What's his advice? "Be brave and kind and curious." Exactly!
And what more, really, needs to be said? Add 'The Tiger Who Jumped Over the Moon' to your list of really great books of poems.
~ Bill Yarrow, author of 'Blasphemer' and 'The Vig of Love