"Solonche is productive and prolific, but that doesn't water down his poetry... He can compress a philosophical treatise into three lines... His epigrammatic tidy poems are philosophic gems. Solonche sees humor and encapsulates it; he frames a thought in perfect verse... He's playful and profound - the more he writes, the more he seems to know. Beneath the Solonche simplicity are significant social comments, and his goodwill reinforces the best in...

"A progression in verse by way of decreasing duration ie. length of lines and numbers of words -while the purport remains provocative, humorous, poignantly astute."--Amazon

In If You Should See Me Walking on the Road, J.R. Solonche’s poems have the grace of Dickinson, the exuberance of Neruda, and the wintry darkness of Frost. In riddles, haikus, aphorisms, odes, and prose poems, Solonche praises the objects and beings of this world – a desk, a sunflower, a wastepaper basket, a hawk dismembering its prey on his lawn, a dog in a car with Alaska plates. He feels joy while pretending to be a tree for his daughter’s...

"Poet J.R. Solonche adds God to his impressive list of published poetry collections. Nominated for the National Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Book Award, and nominated three times for the Pulitzer Prize, J. R. Solonche is the author of thirty-six books of poetry and coauthor of another"--