"In Tom Sawyer, Joseph Grantham is pulling it all back and stripping the language clean. These are poems about broken hearts and growing up, packed full of jokes and weirdo thoughts from a weirdo mind. When I think about Joseph Grantham, I think, 'Ah. finally.. the last living person who doesn't shout for a living.' What sweet poems, from a sweet sweet man.”- Scott McClanahan, author of The Sarah Book

"If you buy this book, your money will go to a nice guy with a mustache. Which is a lot better than spending your money on coffee or whatever. Anyways, it's good poetry. Love, Mira.” - Mira Gonzalez, author of i will never be beautiful enough to make us beautiful together

"I read Joseph Grantham's Tom Sawyer on a Greyhound bus after a scant two hours of sleep while under the influence of a vicious hangover. And these poems still had the power to make me smile and giggle like a maniac. What more do you want from a book? If you don't buy Tom Sawyer I will come to your house and kill your entire family (by the way, Joseph Grantham hates people who say that).”
- Steve Anwyll, author of Welfare