"Christopher Reilley’s latest collection, Breathing for Clouds, has an emotional and architectural grandeur built page after page, written in many shapes, moods and even styles. In 'A Digital Voice,' Reilley writes, 'I speak in puddles/but I write in oceans.' Everything in this book is big, 'like an old dozing elephant,' embracing not only the whole of human emotion - love of child, of woman, of abuser, sadness, rage - but crossing literary genres, too, with the gritty noir prose pieces 'Tales from the Grand Café,' the poignant 'An Open Letter to my Daughters,' and of course, 'Sabbath in Paradise.' Breathing for Clouds does not look away or let up - ever. In its epic scope, in its muscularity of language, Reilley states, 'In my greed, I offer you all I have.' Who dares offer themselves like this?
~ Jennifer Colella Martelli, Apostrophe