"In Hard Times Require Furious Dancing, Lawrence Kessenich shows himself to be a poet of finely tuned attention to the phenomenal world and to the chords and colors, the phrasings and understandings it engenders. These poems, honed in hard times, are always in service to the furiously dancing spirit of poetry; in other words, they are true."
~ Richard Hoffman, author of Noon until Night and People Once Real