"If you ever wondered what John Updike would read like on acid, trip out with Dick Bentley. He can take you far out and then surprise you by evoking ordinary life and feeling so unerringly. Flashbacks guaranteed."
- Diane Lefer

"It's the poet's voice - inquisitive, edgy at times, tender - that gathers these poems together; a voice both innocent and lacerating."
- Clare Rossini