"God of Nothingness is a folkloric investigation into death and its resounding implications on our humanity and significance."--The Arkansas International

"[God of Nothingness is] Mark Wunderlich's . . . best collection of poems. . . . He makes lines as warm and clean as the sunlit pine floors upon which his cat napped."--Commonweal

"The superb fourth collection from Wunderlich disarms with its directness, humor, and pathos."--Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Wunderlich . . . strikes a note of elegiac unease [in God of Nothingness]. . . . The poem 'My Night with Jeffrey Dahmer, ' as chilling as its title, owes much of its power to the poet's ability to orchestrate a suspensefully blended tone of dread and desire."--Library Journal

"Erotic, folkloric, elegiac, philosophic, aesthetic, lyric, queer and rural and utterly haunted (but without the usual messiness of haunting), Wunderlich transcends downward and takes us with him. . . . I am in love with The God of Nothingness, which is permeated, it turns out, with a majestic somethingness."--Diane Seuss

"Mark Wunderlich's poems are alarmingly wise, lyrically charged, and built out of an almost otherworldly clarity. . . . Wunderlich makes an argument not for beauty but for a clear-eyed resilience. God of Nothingness is a book that is as devastating as it is life-affirming, a weapon that both wounds and saves."--Ada Limón