Michael Burkard has published two previous poetry collections, In a White Light and None, River. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Poetry, and other magazines and anthologies.

Praise for Burkard's first poetry collection, In a White Light"Burkard's poetics will be considered new and strange to many readers, though Stevens, Zufosky, and Ashbery were scouts to this light-laden terrain. [His] book is a blessing."