“Heffrenan has feeling, intelligence, and musical skill in all the right amounts; and he writes always in a disarming personal voice. His latest poems range widely, from rural Ireland to a port city in Greece to a small-town Midwest hardware store that regales its customers with raccoon and bourbon…”
—X.J. Kennedy
“The Man at Home should establish Michael Heffernan in the firmament of those poets we cannot do without.”
—Dave Smith