A Black Bridge

"In A Black Bridge, Ralph Tejeda Wilson shows himself to be, like the composer Charles Ives, among a handful of American geniuses able to praise American culture while criticizing it. His gift is similar to Ives's—brutal yet beautiful, satirical yet transcendent." —Jonathan Holden

"It is remarkable that Wilson is able to generate, in specific poems, an ideational complexity and a sense of the stillness or loneliness of the world that are both impressive and effective as poetry." —Scott Minar, Ohioana Quarterly, Spring 2002

"A Black Bridge is, without question, one of the most moving collections of poetry I have read in many years. These poems afford a gentle, kind, forgiving, and, finally, grateful examination of the texture of American life." —Scott Cairns