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". . .a smart, poignant look at a country where politics play a huge part in everyday life and poetry may lead to salvation."
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"A bleak fable that honors the poetic spirit, recognizing lyricism and metaphor as dangerous tools of defiance. "
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"In this compulsively readable and darkly absurdist novel, Medina is at his best."
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"[A] haunting love letter to New York. . .Medina has a keen eye for the ebb and flow of desire. . .There is beauty, suffused with a muted melancholy, in Medina's attempt to capture the rhythms of life."
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"An enjoyable read that reminds us the world is as expansive as our imagination."
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"A kaleidoscopic depiction of life in exile."
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"Sea of Broken Mirrors is a new chapter in an ever shifting and abundant career marked by curiosity, pragmatism, and hope. Yes, hope. I see it here too. And it makes me want to keep writing. To keep going."
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"The Foreigner's Song exhibits the best work of a master who has for more than forty years been writing poems whose lyrical delicacy belies a tensile intellectual and imaginative strength. . .He is a poet of both style and substance, a poet of Eros, but also the poet of food, chopped liver and tunifish, of the memorable phrase, and the striking revelation."
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"Pablo Medina is a brilliant poet. His new book moves, with ease and anguish, from Wittgenstein to Lord Chango. The Man Who Wrote on Water is lasting work."
