Chris Ransicks first full length collection of poetry, Never Summer, has be en hailed by one critic who described the work as "accessible, haunting, ec hoing familiar emotions in brilliant language that, quite frankly, is amazi ng." Another offered the following comments: "These are carefully crafted, hard-hitting, real-life poems. Ransicks unerring sense of place and evocati ve imagery range boldly and broadly from childhood through fatherhood, from the quietude of the garden to the majesty and endlessness of the Western l andscape. The reader will not go away hungry."