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Caples supplies us with a full aesthetic meal, with alarming images right out of the French Surrealists. He also means what he says; regardless of any implications to the contrary, Caples is writing out of emotion, even well-done sentiment.
—Max Winter, Rain Taxi

With a supply of thumbnail biographies that read like the most improbable fiction, and a leisurely but learned style, Caples makes the minor seem major.
—Ed Park, The Poetry Foundation

Caples (Complications) fills his newest collection with musicality and pathos, anchoring his playful language with ardent longing. Just like great power ballads, these poems are maudlin yet still authentically moving…A love song to Oakland, to idols, and to love itself, Caples’s raucous, tender, and tuneful collection lives up to its title.—Publishers Weekly

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