"The spirit of the wooden gun leaves
you with scars, wounds, and the bullet
holes of language. It is a wild outlaw
ride made even more intense by the
compacted words, the thin line beating
syllables into a pulse, a pound. This
poem is an endless sentence with no
breaks. It takes you to a different level
of consciousness." -- Tony Moffeitt

"Wow I really like these poems.
Where have you been hiding
them?" -- Rebecca Morrison

"RD Armstrong's Fire and Rain
(Volume 1) is mostly all ball busters
and roses. One of the best larger
collections by an American poet,
that this reader has read, in many
moons" -- Doug Draime