“Hutchison’s voice is usually quiet, his phrasing precise, his analogical and metaphorical connections energetic
and fertile. Without compromising the integrity of his voice, he adopts a variety of approaches to form, from the nearly traditional and metrical through unpunctuated free verse to paragraphs. He has a witty and sensitive touch with the juxtaposition of these forms, so that he can sometimes seem to give us, in successive poems, two different ways of thinking about the same question, enigma, or moment.”
— Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Henry Taylor in Poetry (Chicago)
