"Elton Glaser’s serious wit and splendid spirit are the perfect anecdote to human aging during a time of world upheaval. In his latest, Capricorn in Flux, he’s got Frank Sinatra and Brahams, but also the Cramps and Professor Porkchop. Glaser’s language is deft and durable, brainy and humane. He is ‘that guy who always campaigned / to turn Glocks into glockenspiels.’ "

--Denise Duhamel, author of Pink Lady

"With Capricorn in Flux, his eleventh collection, Elton Glaser approaches legend status. The rhythm of his revelations come at punk velocities mixed with a Blues base line melancholy: He says more in ten lines than most poets say in ten poems! In funny, viciously elegant turns, Glaser investigates our current culture and the forces of distraction that bleed, and bleed into, our everyday search for truth." 

--Dorothy Barresi, author of What We Did While We Made More Guns

"I cannot think of another recent book of poems that has the sweep of Elton Glazer’s Capricorn in Flux. Spiked with irreverence, filled with loneliness, and wryly lyrical throughout, Glazer’s tripartite volume is composed of a love story bookended by youth and age. He writes with remarkable dispassion about love and remorse. It hurts to speak, he writes. His book is constructed from the impressive, vivid energy of poems counting up regrets." 

--Lynn Emanuel, author of Transcript of the Disappearance, Exact and Diminishing