"Lewis Hine would surely recognize the aim and impact of these photographs. So would Walker Evans. He'd admire their complete sincerity, their absence of condescension or falseness of feeling. The work is a significant accomplishment of social insight and human compassion."

       ALAN TRACHTENBERG, Yale University, author of Reading American Photographs: Images as History-Mathew Brady to Walker Evans.

 

"The photographs constitute a record-I would say the record of the end of an era. And the poems show the same stubbornness, love and vision as do the photographs."

      GERALD STERN, winner of the National Book Award for This Time: New and Selected Poems.

 

"Imagine a combo of Walker Evans and James Agee ... and you'll have Desht-an artist and a mensch. What a beautiful book this is."

      ALICIA OSTRIKER, author of No Heaven.

 

"Photosonata is a remembrance, an honoring, and in Desht's own unique way, a celebration of America."

      ROBERT A. KAVESH, Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Stern School of Business, New York University.