“Adam Stutz’s poetic magnificence here lies in his agile sense of humor and his ability to isolate an idea or an abstract object and enlarge it by making it small. Thus, his poetry operates more like a microphone inside of a microscope. He scrutinizes the unscrutinizable and amplifies the sonic impossible. Stutz’s The Scales is an enigma of clever inspection, a language with its own esoteric musical scale. His poetry begs us to slow down when we move through life too fast, to zero-in the grandeur of insignificanceness when we de-accelerate too rapidly, and to depart from the modern mind a quaintness for lexical acuity. His work makes language glad that it’s still (very much) alive.” – VI KHI NAO, author of Fish in Exile (Coffee House Press, 2016) and The Old Philosopher (Nightboat Books, 2016)

The Scales is now available for order from White Stag Publishing here and Amazon here!