Books
"Jospeh Noshpitz's pioneering  contrubutions to the literature of  child and adolescent psychiatry have stood the test of the time. The field will be further enriched by the publication of his heretofore unpublished work."
       -Anna Ornstein, M.D., Professor Emerita of
         Child Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati

"One should not use the word 'classic' lightly, but Sklarew's poetry is so crystalline, so fearless, and so wise that the word is hard to aviod when speaking about the book."
       -Washington Book Review
"Myra Sklarew's prose pieces tend to be like disturbing little games, brief, stunningly original, highly intellectual, yet surprisingly moving. There is a deep simple honesty about her work, which is nevertheless complex, profound, and highly musical."
     -Robert Coover

"I have been following Myra Sklarew's poetry for many years, and am aware of its continual deepening into forms of darling and manifest freedom.... Fiction by Myra Sklarew is an event."
      -Cynthia Ozick
"The Witness Trees tells through poetry, eyewitness accounts, and a moving historical narrative the tangled web of Lithuanian Jewish history."
-Cornwall Books
"This verbal artist's work is often perplexing, its challenges off-putting to the casual or impatient reader. But if we give these tiny jewel-like-parables a chance, they will burst upon us, illuminating the patterns of our inner lives."
        -Phil Jason, Washington Jewish Week
"Her subjects include science, exile, the future, the Holocaust, the remaining Jewish community of Morocco, Yiddish poetry, the visual arts, and teaching. Ultimately, the book is about access, about following one's own curiousity despite the obstacles that might appear along the way."
        -SUNY Press
"The long poem, 'The Door to That Room,' conveys the disjointed quality of personal history."
      -Miriam Levine, American Book Review
 "The poem 'Lithuania' is based upon the firsthand accounts of elderly Lithuanians and surviving Lithuanian Jews, on letters written from Lithuania to my family on the eve of World War II, on diaries secretly kept, on conversations with a family member who survived the Kovno Ghetto and Stutthof Concentration Camp."
         -Myra Sklarew, author
 "Thus, she explains, in these
   entries I take my place among
   the wanderers of the Middle
   Ages, those who like Marco Polo
   sought to know for themselves
    the diversities of kingdoms and
    provinces, of Persian and Tartar."
       -Freda Aharon
" Myra Sklarew's From the Backyard of Diaspora is an intense book. Its images sing a dark music, something like that of other good surreal poetry of our time, but strengthed by entwining meanings of images of Jewish tradition."
      -Sewanee Review
"Sklarew is at home with Torah as myth and history, and also with modern and contemporary history, particularly its themes of violence and separation. She cherishes equally the creative urge and courageous failures of the artist and of the scientist. She is at home with the constant flux of loss, disorientation, and balance restored. At home with mystery, she is wise enough not to unravel it."
       -Jewish Book World