"Advice for Lovers is the type of book that makes you see language with fresh eyes, challenging you toward something fiercer and more honest yet. It leaves you bruised and aching to be bruised again, and isn't that what you were asking for after all?"

—T Fleischmann

"[A] book with power, scope, and dedication to sexuality and 'Love, that god among goddesses'... There's much to gush over, and a few audacious poems that may threaten a swarthy sexpot with red-faced embarrassment."

—Jim Piechota

"Truly, these poems—all those in the book—are great, the naughtiest ones just happen to also rank among the most superbly supple display of an embrace of lyric language to be found in the work of any contemporary younger poet. Brolaski's gifted play of alliteration and syllabic deft shines with this collection. The power is immediate and raw."

—Patrick James Dunagan

"Sensuous in dawn, daylight, dusk and night, Julian's new book Advice for Lovers is a primrose-rich , self-indicating rite of passage that in order to progress, must pass well through itself."

—J/J Hastain