“Caleb Curtiss is a poet among poets and in this beautiful and assured collection, he makes himself heard and how.”
— ROXANE GAY
from "A Bloomery" [Fugue 51]

from "A Bloomery" [Fugue 51]

“Powerful insights are rooted throughout, often bolstered by Curtiss’s technical skill.”
— RAIN TAXI REVIEW
“Here is the lyric and evocative testimony of a powerful consciousness at the beginning of a remarkable career.”
— RENEE ASHLEY
“ If Linnaeus had the imaginative alchemy necessary to string earthly biology to the chimerical afterlife, Systema Naturae would have read more like Curtiss’ revelatory, faithful, and ‘very strange ontology.’”
— MATTHEW GAVIN FRANK
“The elegies in Caleb Curtiss’s first chapbook, A Taxonomy of the Space Between Us, contrast the painful reality of death with the plaintive unreality of those who have died.”
— DIAGRAM