Louis McKee had this to say about Carvings"g. emil reutter is an urban poet, a man with a city and a town, with in the fringes of nature, the cold, swift anonymityof creeks and rivers and denizens of the margins."From a profile by Daniel Felsenthal"G's writing is varied; his themes range from tranquil observations of nature to a sadder, almost Bukowski-like brand of barroom poetry. He frequently casts himself as a distant observer, a gear stripped from a machine, watching it grind along without him. "