"If Bacon, Wyeth, or Hopper had used words rather than pigments, these are the works I suspect they would have created. LeGrand's verse is poignant, playful, and always evocative."
~Michael C. Keith, The Next Better Place

"In Hope and Compulsion, LeGrand conveys the rawness of human existence in an understated but self-aware manner that woos the reader with beauty of language as well as trueness of ideas."
~ Heather Cadenhead, The Basilica Review

“These are poems of a crisp intelligence sparked by imagination with an eye and an ear to both the street and the heart.”
~ Ginger Murchison, The Cortland Review