The sixty-seven lyric poems that comprises John Witte’s Disquiet shed their beautiful lamplight on so many separate elements, beings and conditions, one can feel the loom of Neruda’s Elemental Odes, and hear in them, exquisitely, the voices and footfalls of one’s own life and the darkly marvelous lives of the imagination. This is an utterly distinctive volume, courageous, disquieting indeed, in its technical and emotional clarity,
and in the amazing range of reference that includes us all. If you love poetry, you will love this book.

-Christopher Howell