"Michael Burkard's poems evoke a strange and compelling interior world. They are low warning signals sent out into the world of dusk, intimate secrets and passionate cries that reverberate through the prison-house of language and self. Fictions From the Self generates fragmentary letters and necessary stories; it also lays bare some essential truths about the isolated and multiple selves we inhabit."
"Michael Burkard's poems evoke a strange and compelling interior world. They are low warning signals sent out into the world of dusk, intimate secrets and passionate cries that reverberate through the prison-house of language and self. Fictions From the Self generates fragmentary letters and necessary stories; it also lays bare some essential truths about the isolated and multiple selves we inhabit."