Dirty Blue Voice is award-winning poet and publisher Clarinda Harriss" latest poetry collection. "In these poems, burnished with maturity and wisdom, Clarinda Harriss reminds us that the Cartesian split of body and spirit is false and provides little consolation. The body remains more packed with desire, joy and language than we were ever taught to imagine. She celebrates as no poet has the resilience of lust, love and language and unblinking witnesses their loss. These poem throb with the passion of ideas and command the logic of sensuality." -- David Bergman "Calling out sometimes with the clear vowels of the infant, sometimes with the rag and bone shop incantations of the crone, Clarinda Harriss collars the passerby and draws him as only the archetypal seductress can into her lair of lights and rhythms and shapes and musics. With the sandpaper rasp of Ted Hughes" Crow, her Vox shatters whatever is common or expected. At times ecstatic as Oliver, often physical as Olds, always workmanlike as Plath, this is a poet whose voice rises with essential clarity very, very far above the buzz of contemporary poetry. There is crystal in these pages, there is steel." -- Bruce Sager "In poems like Confetti, Cells, and others in Dirty Blue Voice, Clarinda Harriss gets "past the electric drone" and "the buzz of the mall" to turn a keen eye and frank perspective on early 21st- century America, where the metaphyical conflict between body and spirit stirs up the energy driving these poems." -- Terence Winch