"No poet has taken the idea that poetry should be at least as good as overheard conversation as seriously as Ted Greenwald."
~Publishers Weekly
"Ted Greenwald knows what real American talk sounds like, understands the rhythm and pulse of the language, and knows how to write poems that are built around that knowledge. He is one of America's most ambitious and provocative poets."
~Terence Winch, Jacket 19, October 2002, reviewing Jumping the Line
"Craftsmanship of line breaks. Motored by mind. Stark insight. Truncated adventitiousisms. Balls. The Age of Reasons, poems from half a lifetime ago, demonstrates why Ted Greenwald has inspired so many poets ever since. When it ships, it should be packed in laurels.""
~John Godfrey
"Ted Greenwald's poems 'give voice' to a variety of New York idioms, and with that, a distinct attitude toward both language and experience. His hard and insistent surfaces admit to an extraordinary range of feeling, humor, observation and often ironic commentary. His ultimate strength as a poet is his basic humanity, something that can be claimed for very few.""
~Bill Berkson
""The poems are quick, fervent outbursts of song... Greenwald's Common Sense celebrates the beauty of ordinary language. These are poems unique in their attitude toward language and humanity, and they provide us with an absolutely vital reading experience. The poems are strong words from an even stronger mind unafraid to endow the words with flesh and bone. Greenwald is the ultimate poet's poet.""
~Sonja James, The Journal
""No poet has taken the idea that poetry should be at least as good as overheard conversation as seriously as Ted Greenwald.""
~Publishers Weekly
""Greenwald's poems, from the start, were so much their own method and approach, that he seemed to have sprouted like some hybrid from the grey dense concrete of Manhattan streets.""
~The Compass Rose
