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“Nancy Pagh is that rare poet who can combine the intensely personal with impeccable craft and aesthetic distance. The taut energy and honesty of these poems break your heart. The tribute Pagh pays to other poets and the sophisticated skills she applies to every line make you shiver with delight. These are poems to treasure.”  –Lorna Crozier, author of The Blue Hour of the Day: Selected Poems

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“After is a bit of a high-wire act. But if you like to see high-fliers fall, you’ll have to look elsewhere. Pagh skillfully avoids each trap in these technically interesting, lively, smart, and compactly complex poems. She builds on her sources, allowing her own associations to take us to different insights carried along by her appealing voice. I know. Gush. Gush. Gush. Not as interesting as a little action with the tooth and claw. But really, the poems are fun, skilled, and (how rare is this) surprising. These days the poetry biz is sometimes awash in blather, low bars, lazy observation, and tatty notions. You’ll find none of that here. Pagh sets the bar high. Then she sails right over it.”   —Fiddler Crab Review

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“Nancy Pagh won the Floating Bridge Press chapbook contest with her collection After, with each poem being written “after” a particular poet. Each spread starts with the epigraph on a left-hand page, with the poem on the right, so the idea is abundantly clear. That’s the hook, the concept. In a way, it’s like an invented bucket (or drawer) that readers can categorize the book into, thus making the book more accessible. The real substance is deeper, of course, and in Nancy’s case it’s the emotional sway that underpins the poems in their darkness and fearless grit.”  –Michal Dylan Welch, Writersdigest.com

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“After is the perfect title for this book: Pagh pays homage to the poets her poems are modeled after, while construing gestures and images that are completely faithful to what she has lived and loved. She enacts a dazzling union between the concept that shapes the poems and the human experience that energizes them. This is a completely satisfying book.”  –James Bertolino, author of Finding Water, Holding Stone