"Poignant, quirky, troubled, the poems in Everyone at This Party are
reminiscent of James Tate, Bill Knott, and eternal Edward Lear. Rife
with characters who stumble, speakers who suffer, and wisdoms that
bristle with the darkest and lightest aspects of being alive, Modlin's
portraits are delightful, artful, and frightening collages of the
fractured individual who must daily relearn the lessons of love and
grief. To read this book is to recoil with recognition, and then to
shoot forward with the courage it provides via humor and the unexpected
warmth of shared plight."--Larissa Szporluk, author of Traffic with
Macbeth