The Pagan Rain

Few poets can render a landscape, whether interior or exterior, more keenly and poignantly. Here is a poet who listens to language and lets it lead him into the heart of the poem with authority and grace.

--Kathryn Stripling Byer, author of Wildwood Flower and Black Shawl.



Holt's poems are as vivid as photographs, as stark at times as Walker Evans, as warm as Doris Ullman.

--Robert Morgan, author of Gap Creek and The Strange Attractor.