Budy's poems take us places, within familiar surroundings, we haven't really been before, or try hard to deny acknowledging. Budy unswervingly engages all that is human and mystical in our time. She can inspire the beasts of the jungle and the chicekens themselves to dance!

This is, without a doubt, one of my favorite books of recent poetry. Among her many other talents, AHB cleverly recasts fairy tales, without falling victim to Adrienne Rich's tendency to find mythology in everything, and her poetic felicity goes far beyond ironic versions of folk wisdom. She'll teach you about pain and aging, yet her profundities don't ring pedantic. She'll humor you without sacrificing her poetic integrity. I cannot say enough in praise of her craft. Too many writers continue to pass off broken prose as poetry, yet AHB pays close attention to line and teases you with occasional amphibolic turns of phrase. Her emotional insight into relationships and her ability to render those relationships with candor makes her poetry familiar, yet she achieves this without sacrificing the strength of her subversive moments. This book is a joy to read again and again.

This book works magic: there are moments, feelings, truths in life that we cannot speak of with words..because they fail to convey the depth, the heart of the matter...yet these poems move into the realm of the unspeakable and speak eloquently. In an age when we rush about with few of us reading poetry, we need more than ever what this book provides: poems for everyone. They are poems that speak about love, loss, belonging, yearning: the untrivial things that fill your mind between the drive from home to the supermarket, while waiting at a bus depot, or shampooing in the shower...the thoughts that form the true you. And though these poems are her easily readable verse, they strangely seem as though they could be your own because they say such vital, significant truths..cutting deep into your heart, the pit of your belly, the very bone of you...saying what you felt and understood (or came close to comprehending) but could never vocalize as she has. This is a book you will want to share, to give to those that you love because it is pure, timeless, and needed.

When was the last time you read a really good poem about a successful marriage? About the simple things that make it work - set forth in shining words?

In 'What the Other Eye Sees', you'll encounter a treasure: poems with stories living behind them - stories about grandparents escaping from a war, about a beloved father, a mother as wonderful as a dream. And throughout the book, a husband and a marriage that is enduring and solid.

The language is plain, understandable, but with a clarity and force that is moving. These are poems on a high level; they deserve a wide audience.