Again and again in poems of precision conscience and formal elegance Dennis Daly arrests our vertiginous world so we may see its beauty horror and promise. Daly is a masterful poet whether he is writing in free or formal verse and the poems in this substantial gathering of his work accrue to a mature vision of our world as it is and as it could be. The Custom House is a book to savor a book to treasure. - Richard Hoffman author of Gold Star Road and Emblem