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When Yates And I First Met And Had Dinner At The University Of Missouri He Was An Undergraduate. His Work Was Brilliant Then. This I Told Him And His Department Head. This Canticle For Electronic Music Underscores The Acuity Of My Forecasting.-W.H. Auden The Quest With Great Admiration For Your Work.--Joyce Carol Oates I Appreciate This Poet'S Concentration Swiftness Density: His Choice For The Deeply Personal Utterance And That Only. He Wastes No Time With Exercises Set Themes And Other Conventional Maneuvers.-Henry Rago Editor Poetry. He Is Violent And Unpredictable.Has A Wild Unconventional Imagination.-James Dickey Dangerous Minds Investigate Dangerous Places In The Mind. Most Of Your Work Lives In These Places.-Yehuda Amichai. J. Michael Yates Is The Most Lively And Original Writer Of His Generation.-Robin Skelton I Appreciate Your Keeping Me Out Of Trouble Almost As Much As I Appreciate Your Poetry. -Czeslaw Milosz. This Young Writer Unlike Most Is Fearless In Matters Of Dangerous Themes And Dialogue Which Will Clearly Come Over The Lights.-Arthur Miller (As Judge Of Yates'Major Hopwood Award Winning Manuscript Subjunction.) Michael Yates Is A Great Poet Who Has Given Us Such A Universe. I Consider His The Great Bear Lake Meditations To Be By Far The Most Ambitious And Successful Meditative Poem Ever Written In Canada.-Fred Cogswell