“Jean Garrigue rose from an insecure, unknown student to become a part of the literary canon because of her original, vibrant poetry which encompassed both the intellectual and personal. Her poetry had a lyric quality and wildness that was presented in flashes of memory and images which captured the imagination of the literary community. Garrigue is considered her generation’s true Romantic poet.”

— J.D. McClatchy, Abstract for “Wildness Asking for Ceremony,” The American Poetry Review, March-April 1992