Mark Perlberg's poetry reveals intensely personal experience that simultaneously evokes universal human emotions and conditions. His finely wrought language, graceful cadences and precise imagery make this third collection of Perlberg's poetry an enduring literary achievement.

We enjoyed reading THE IMPOSSIBLE TOYSTORE by Mark Perlberg very much. Perlberg is a new author to me, but his poetry is both accessible and profound. I recommend it very highly. Bernard Gallin, East Lansing, Michigan

These wonderful poems cover a range of both narrative and emotion. The narratives have the impact of the very best short fiction, but they surprise you: the power of the narrative is really being shaped all along by the concentrated and beautifully wrought language. While these are often poems of memory, they are more often about the "impossible" gap between what we wish the past was like and what we know it was. Still, the poems are not mostly exercises in memory; the best are great examples of language intensifying emotion and image. Some excellent poems on painters paintings, and the power of imagery. Deserves to be much read, reread, and quoted.