"Joshua Poteat's Richmond is at once local and universal, sorrowful and redemptive, a landscape to set beside Paterson and Spoon River on the bookshelf and in the literary imagination." -- Campbell McGrath, award-winning poet and author of In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys

"In Joshua Poteat's The Regret Histories, we perceive History and Nature observing us with a disregard that unsettles our humanity. But, as Poteat's poems insist, the cyclical emptiness... will soon be refilled, if only by drips, with the obstinate weight of our hope and humanity." -- Dario Robleto, Smithsonian Artist Fellow and 2016 State of Texas Artist Laureate

"The Regret Histories is nothing less than a book of wisdom...Joshua Poteat has written a book that will last not only because it is singular in its voice and originality, but because it bears truth, burdened and alive." -- Katie Ford, author of Blood Lyrics

"Poteat imbeds in his language the task of memory at work. These poems act as a kind of echolocation, an attempt to conceive of a single life against the din of lives that came before and those to follow." -- Rick Alverson, director of Entertainment and The Comedy

"The Regret Histories tenderly and honestly--yet without consolation--locates its urgent personal grief and regret within the ongoing and haunting injustices and inequalities that constitute the history and cultural landscape of America itself." -- Kathleen Graber, author of The Eternal City, a finalist for the Poetry National Book Award