"As Hudson deconstructs each composition, he weaves in his own wonder and faith in knowing he has much more to learn. This judicious treatment of introspective poetry and literary history is a real treat." --Publishers Weekly "In this marvelous series of meditations, Robert Hudson draws us into the felicity of attending to the fleeting that nonetheless teems with glory. Like its subject, Hudson playfully alights from poets to nature, from creation to creators, from art to science and back. But the flight pattern of this book takes us to the depths of what matters: meaning, mortality, and our hope in the divine." --James K. A. Smith, Calvin University, editor-in-chief of Image journal and author of You Are What You Love and On the Road with Saint Augustine " The Poet and the Fly --marked on every page by the breadth and depth of Robert Hudson's extraordinary reading--is one of those books that reminds us why art is so important.

It vividly demonstrates how poets can wake us up--and in a culture that works so hard at numbing us into sleep, Hudson's work is no less than a blessing." --Gary Schmidt, Newbury Honor and Printz Honor winner, author of Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy and The Wednesday Wars "Robert Hudson's delightful The Poet and the Fly revealed to me depths in poems I thought I knew and riches in poems I'd missed or foolishly dismissed. It is a pleasure you will not want to deny yourself." --Andrew Hudgins, poet, professor of English, author of The Joker: A Memoir and American Rendering: New and Selected Poems.