He possesses a stylistic grittiness, which can rise to high eloquence, and a profusion of fresh imagistic details, poem by persuasive poem, that is downright exciting—Robert Pack 

Joel Peckham has written a survival guide to America. In poem after poem, each filled with an onslaught of hard knocks, hard asses, hard times, and hard edges to everything, we are all but hurled through the culture's overwhelming plurality of attacks on the heart.—Jack Ridl

Bone Music is a survival guide, a necessary book for our time and for time to come.--Wendy Barker

Peckham provides character studies as rich as any novelist's and all with a dark beauty illuminating the poems much like the brilliant sky holds in place Munch's horrific, yet mesmerizing scream.  These poems, too, will not let you go-- of that I'm sure --Marc Harshman