John Hollander, from the back cover:

“Joshua Mehigan is a poet of glowing gifts—his exquisite control of meter and rhyme and his never-failing diction, pointed and resonant both, are startlingly good, as is his sense of pace and timing in poem after poem. But his talents are not merely displayed in these profoundly affecting poems, but rather gloriously employed in their conception and framing. From the freshness and grace of the opening ‘Promenade,’ through the darker sonnets—including the fine title poem—this book is a remarkable achievement.”