Reviews

[The Garrett Caples Reader] displays genuine intellectual engagement along with its playful exuberance, making for a most winning combination.
Publishers Weekly

Caples supplies us with a full aesthetic meal, with alarming images right out of the French Surrealists. He also means what he says; regardless of any implications to the contrary, Caples is writing out of emotion, even well-done sentiment.
Max Winter, Rain Taxi

I adore [Caples’] prescription to read widely and even perversely; and his breezy style is engaging--despite the weighty title, the essay feels like some chunk of a great conversation you'd have over a couple of beers. And we need more poets weighing in on things the way he has here...
Don Share

With a supply of thumbnail biographies that read like the most improbable fiction, and a leisurely but learned style, Caples makes the minor seem major.
Ed Park, The Poetry Foundation

Reviews of books by Garrett Caples

Lovers of Today

Preserving Fire

Power Ballads

Retrievals

Quintessence of the Minor

Poems
- "Tratatus" (on Bear Books)
- “Sundial Tone” (in Granta)
- “Aubade” (in Poetry)
- “Ordinary History America” (in Poetry)
- “Richard O. Moore Imagined as a Bob Dylan Song” (in OmniVerse)

Interviews
- Bookslut, with Patrick James Dunagan
- PhillySound, with CAConrad
- Otolith, with Eileen Tabios

Articles by Garrett Caples
- “How to Rhyme” in Concrescent
- “Surrealism Is a Romantic Critique of the Avant-Garde from Within” in The Poetry Foundation
- “Kerouac as Poet: A Response to Cedar Sigo” in The Poetry Foundation
- “Two Chicagos” in The Poetry Foundation
- “The Secret Life of Sylvia Fein” in The San Francisco Bay Guardian
- “Homage to Ralph Nader” in The Brooklyn Rail