“Mr. Ignatow was the author and editor of 27 books, including ‘I Have a Name’ (1996) and ‘Shadowing the Ground’ (1991). He published short stories and a memoir, ‘The One in the Many’ (1988), and edited collections of the work of William Carlos Williams and Walt Whitman. The critic Ralph J. Mills once wrote that Mr. Ignatow followed ‘in the tradition of those genuine poets who have, in independent ways, struggled to create a living American poetry from the immediacies of existence in this country, from the tragedies and potentialities of its legacy, and from the abundant music and vitality of its language.”’
–Dinitia Smith, New York Times, Nov. 19, 1997