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Critical Praise for Hook & Bloodline

• The third collection of poetry by one of the founders of the small press movement in Texas

  A priceless collection, rich with images of nature and how our senses respond to nature. I read and heard a wise and friendly voice lead me into my own sense of wonder. These poems are magical in their incantation, as poetry should be.

  — Rudolfo Anaya, author of Bless Me, Ultima, Shaman Winter, and other classic works of Southwestern fiction.

• Chip Dameron has a talent for the memorable line, the brilliant image. Another poet might be content merely to display these gifts, but Dameron uses them as diamond-hard cutting tools, and his willingness to excavate beneath his own virtuoso surfaces marks him as an artist of real conviction. Hook & Bloodline is significant, perceptive, and deeply real.

  — Steve Harrigan, author of Gates of the Alamo, Jacob's Well, Aransas, and other works. Past president, Texas Institute of Letters

• Dameron's lucid observations evoke the palpable resonances of a changing world from the vantage of mid-life. . . . These mature insights never fossilize into object lessons; fresh perceptions reveal intense vitality for --rather than indulgence in or a denial of --the mortal text of one's middle eye.

  — Robert Bonazzi, in The Texas Observer

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• The third collection of poetry by one of the founders of the small press movement in Texas

  A priceless collection, rich with images of nature and how our senses respond to nature. I read and heard a wise and friendly voice lead me into my own sense of wonder. These poems are magical in their incantation, as poetry should be. --Rudolfo Anaya, author of Bless Me, Ultima, Shaman Winter, and other classic works of Southwestern fiction.

  Chip Dameron has a talent for the memorable line, the brilliant image. Another poet might be content merely to display these gifts, but Dameron uses them as diamond-hard cutting tools, and his willingness to excavate beneath his own virtuoso surfaces marks him as an artist of real conviction. Hook & Bloodline is significant, perceptive, and deeply real. -- Steve Harrigan, author of Gates of the Alamo, Jacob's Well, Aransas, and other works. Past president, Texas Institute of Letters

  Dameron's lucid observations evoke the palpable resonances of a changing world from the vantage of mid-life. . . . These mature insights never fossilize into object lessons; fresh perceptions reveal intense vitality for --rather than indulgence in or a denial of --the mortal text of one's middle eye. --Robert Bonazzi, in The Texas Observer