“‘What is a shape / Except resistance,’ Fry asks himself, and the poems of Harpo Before the Opus—in all their prosodic diversity, technical and historical lexicons, and affective topographies—may be read as the literary manifesto for a resistance movement of one. Yet Fry also shows us how resistance may be grounded, all too often, in unacknowledged complicities. . . . Such plentitude of being holds open the possibility of companionship, and perhaps even comradeship.”
— Srikanth Reddy, author of Voyager