I'm not ashamed to admit that Kimberly Blaeser's assessment of my book is far more elegant than anything I've ever written. But hey, that's why she is a poet laureate and I'm not.

I really hope my book, in some small measure, achieves some of the things she describes. I'm honored:

"Whether recounting escapades of cider-making or child-rearing, encounters with college professors or dying horses, in The Geiger Counter Matt Geiger whittles down the pomp and pretention of life’s circumstances and trains his philosopher’s vision on the most basic of human questions. With an often self-deprecating humor and more accuracy than any scientific instrument, he launches his stories into the dark and tender places of our being. There, the down-to-earth personae disarms us and lulls us with the mundane. But somehow amid cow pies and cancer screenings, he unerring takes the measure of loss, redraws the shapes of kindness, unearths wisdom, and charts a path through fear. Perhaps more importantly, he incites each reader to look more closely at their own life--in all its mundane glory."

-Kimberly Blaeser, Wisconsin Poet Laureate 2015-16, author of Apprenticed to Justice

Blaeser is a Professor at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where she teaches Creative Writing and Native American Literatures. She is the author of three collections of poetry: Apprenticed to Justice, Absentee Indians and Other Poems, and Trailing You. Blaeser is Anishinaabe, an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, and grew up on the White Earth Reservation in northwestern Minnesota. She is the editor of Stories Migrating Home: A Collection of Anishinaabe Prose and Traces in Blood, Bone, and Stone: Contemporary Ojibwe Poetry. Blaeser, is currently at work on a collection of “Picto-Poems” which combines her photographs and poetry.