He tells us something about the paradoxes of love at the same time that he tells us about... art.-Lilly Wei High style without grandiloquence. John Godfrey Love, carnal and fated, fills these pages. You can have it but as if in a proverb of the East, you cannot keep it except in brilliant memory. Beautiful, intense, and utterly absorbing. -James Salter Very persuasive, disturbing, and written with lovely sentences and small, understated, elegant moments. -Ann Beattie William Benton is primarily a poet, and the book [Eye Contact] gradually gains its unique success from the real experience of his lifetime, the coups and crises of marriage and family, its ring of truth resounding from a persisting and expansive source of human authenticity. Vyt Bakaitis
