"Aaron Kunin keeps me honest--his reading, the extremity of his intelligence, the radical rigor (and weird humor) of his poetry and prose. His learnedness is almost anachronistic and yet I feel like he might, except for his lack of cynicism, be my most contemporary contemporary. I look up to him. it occurs to me often to be grateful for his work."--Ben Lerner

"Aaron Kunin, odd funny grim philosopher poet, brilliant and heartbreaking."--Catherine Wagner

"Kunin's Cold Genius tweezers deep feelings. It startles with pleasure and squeaks with pain through a relentless formal labyrinth. He is a master of the awkward sublime, poetry at its most clinical. I take pleasure in it, and that troubles me."--Jennifer Moxley