"What makes Guinevere in Baltimore work is the sheer brilliance of the individual poems...masterfully crafted, a veritable feast for any lover of words."
– from Charles Simic’s foreword
"A freakishly brilliant book in its conception, Shelley Puhak’s Guinevere in Baltimore raises the stakes for American poetry of the twenty-first century."
– Cate Marvin
"Daring and totally distinctive...[Puhak] has found her place and staked her poetic claim."
- Kenyon Review Online
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Letter to An Old Flame in The Missouri Review
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Two Poems in Kenyon Review Online
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Two Poems in The Normal School
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The Last Meeting in Verse Daily
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"Deeply political and deeply personal, Stalin in Aruba is a startling debut...Puhak has me hooked. This is a poet to keep your eye on!"
—Julianna Baggott
"Shelley Puhak’s stunning first book of poems is not so much a voyage but a zigzagging from one strange and fascinating port to another: Hitler’s lovers, lady laudanum drinkers, a high-school Proteus, gypsies, Raphael’s portrait of Pope Leo X, a Polish refugee who triples her weight after marriage, and a cemetery of life stories."
—John Surowiecki
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Torch in Alaska Quarterly Review
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The Führer's Girls in Beloit Poetry Journal
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