The women and men in these poems--dirt under their nails, rust flaking off their hearts--are so fully realized they might as well be sitting next to you at the diner when you read them. Through generous empathy and a keen eye, Garret Stack reveals the cooling embers in strangers' souls before kindling them, so that they might once again faintly glow. The poems build to powerful resonant images and gut-punch final lines. Yeoman's Work is a hell of a debut.

-Adam Schuitema, author of The Things We Do that Make Sense