Everyone at This Party Has Two Names

For anyone burdened by the weight of modernity, forget the chicken soup; pick up Brad Modlin’s wonderful book of poems.
–George Hovis

When you finish this book, you’ll most likely want to thank him.
–Fred Marchant

Brad Aaron Modlin is at once curious and bemused about our behaviors, the gaps in our understanding, and the questions that seem to have been answered behind our backs, starting even before that day we were absent in fourth grade…His whimsical metaphors and scenarios suggest that we are in thrall to the belief that by now we should understand everything; by now we should no longer be lonely…[A] poet who is as interesting as he is unpredictable.
–J. Allyn Rosser

To read this book is to recoil with recognition, and then to shoot forward with the courage it provides via humor and the unexpected warmth of shared plight.
–Larissa Szporluk

[These poems are] remarkable for their candor, for their wit…[W]e emerge humored but also transformed…In prose and in verse, the poems here, much like the book’s title, have two names: holy and brilliant.
–Gary McDowell