"Whether it's with elegies or tributes, Ramsey prompts us toward joy, urging us to jump straight up, / free of the gravity of time."
-Paulann Petersen, author of My Kindred
"Jump Straight Up is a buoyantly beautiful report from a Northwest master at age 85."-John Daniel, author of Gifted
"Ramsey delivers accounts of history, local lore, love for kinfolk, and yearning to understand the changes carrying us all along, richly in need of poems just like these."-Kim Stafford, author of Singer Come from Afar