by D. Nurkse

Stankiewicz is the rare poet who can find transcendence in daily life, not as a formula, not because he's looking for it, but as a shock. Again and again, these poems find the place where the self ends and the world begins, in the heart of contingency, where power and vulnerability are the same unknown, where you must "pick up one pebble, then another." MY FIRST BEATRICE is a beautiful book.

by Kevin Sweeney

...He discerns both meaning and consolation in the daily phenomena, both large and small, of the visible world. Though he never retreats from the specter of darkness, he finds the elusive light, strengthening his faith in an order the reader trusts him to reveal....let David Stankiewicz help you take back the world, mutilated but still wondrous, still luminous, still a place of possibility.