Praise for The Red Goose:

"Like his antecedent, Hayden Carruth, Allen Guy Wilcox writes poems rooted in upstate New York and Vermont, in the spaces of a rural America that are in-between. These are spaces of loss and beauty and nostalgia. The Red Goose moves across ordinary American life — a winter test drive through Almond, New York; a daughter counting her rain boots; a son clearing the loft his father built — and finds beauty in these moments. These are poems of family, labor, love, and the passage of parents. They are sad and lovely."  

- Pauls Toutonghi
Author of THE REFUGEE OCEAN



"I've been reading the deft, alluring poems of Allen Guy Wilcox for many years, and it’s a pleasure to have the very best of them gathered in this sumptuous first collection. Wilcox is a poet of immense gifts: his ear is keen, and he is alert to the reverberations of language, the way sounds call to sounds, attentive to the music of everyday life. Each of his poems carries a tune, and the sequence as a whole is granular, vividly imagistic, and wonderfully varied. He summons a largely rural world that, for me, is deeply appealing. I will read The Red Goose again and again.”

- Jay Parini
Author of NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS: 1975-2015