The Heart's Many Doors

In The Heart’s Many Doors, the poems of forty-one American poets oscillate out like ripples in a golden pond in response to Metka Krašovec’s images, which in turn respond to Emily Dickinson’s poems, which we have come to expect to be by turns both dark and sun-drenched. Richard Jackson has provided us with a collection of poems in many shapes, a mosaic which shows many of these poets, gathered as they are in this incandescent company, more fully realizing their own voices in homage to two brilliant presences". — Paul Mariani, poet, critic, and award-winning biographer of Robert Lowell, Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Carlos Williams and others.

"Metka Krašovec’s drawings reconcile us with beauty and destruction. Her visionary images make us first feel speechless, then confronted and transformed. Their goal lies behind the image, in a space between. They seduce us to enter a brutal dialogue. I can hear its echos inside a deep well, a reminder of a common source of creating and witnessing. It is hard to think of a profounder and more polyphonic way to explore this dialogue than this book". — Aleš Šteger, author of Knjiga reci (The Book of Things) and Knjiga teles (The Book of Bodies)