The Blue Museum: Poems

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Cousineau writes in long, conversational, deceptively casual lines that quickly add up to an explosive critical mass. At times these epiphanies are dazzling...

"Phil Cousineau has long been a powerful presence in the Bay Area literary scene ... whose influence has been noted by a great many other major poets of his generation, including Antler and Jane Hirshfield. The Blue Museum comprising poems from his entire life's work, is a book readers will be unlikely to forget. [It] contains the whole story of one man's life, the way poets seldom do it any more — the way Wordsworth or Whitman did it, say, or William Carlos Williams, or even, more recently Charles Olson ... At times [his] epiphanies are dazzling... [He] is equally adept at the sort of short-lined, concise, clear-eyed appreciations of nature perfected by Gary Snyder ... exquisite lyrics about the harmony between man, woman, and unborn child ... and the most beautiful ode to Van Gogh I have ever read..." —San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

"The Blue Museum is like a trumpet sounding to restore our sense of wonder, and it costs nothing less than your soul..." —R.B. Morris