The Book of Motion has a contained surreal style that deftly shapes a philosophical argument that somehow remains pure lyric."—Carol Muske-Dukes, Los Angeles Times Book Review

"To read Tung-Hui Hu is to feel in the presence of a fresh, new voice. He's read his Tate and his Simic, absorbed their intelligent strangeness and humor, then with great brio and precision has discovered how to go his own way. The Book of Motion is an exciting debut."—Stephen Dunn, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Different Hours

"Distillate, metamorphic, these elegant poems by Tung-Hui Hu work magic on the page...chart the deft alignments of silence and sublimity, minimal brush stroke and maximal wit, the deadpan ad-lib and the swerve of philosophic penetration. The Book of Motion is above all a motion of mind: a joyous—and joy-engendering—debut."—Linda Gregerson, winner of the 2003 Kingsley Tufts Award

"Tung Hui-Hu's extraordinary The Book of Motion stuns by degrees. Here all is precarious, nothing is safe; these poems earthquake the expected. Hallucinatory yet precisely anchored in the quotidian, these are deeply memorable poems."—Laurie Sheck, author of Black Series: Poems