Every poem is an island, surrounded by the ocean of language; these microcosmic works by Hoyt Rogers map a gleaming archipelago of words. 
   — Pablo Báez

Intermingling poems in verse with poems in prose, Witnesses is a cry of love, suspended in time, with the terror and beauty of youth. The purity of its timbre evokes John Keats, but its vast respiration and bold roaming connect it mysteriously to Walt Whitman. It teaches us to take delight, all over again, in the miracle of utterance. Most saliently, Witnesses plunges us into the strata of human experience that lie hidden in subterranean privacy, emerging only as prayer. Personally, I return to this collection again and again: it is a volume for all seasons. 
   — Anne Davenport

Los poemas de Hoyt Rogers son como hermosos caracoles que recogemos en la playa. Nos enriquecen, nos revitalizan, pero sobre todo nos llenan de poesía, especialmente cuando de noche nos los acercamos al oído y distinguimos su voz mezclada con la del mar. 
   — Frank Báez