Destiny's Calendar: "Metras writes moving meditations on our lives, and on his own. His language is direct and unpretentious. His music has a full and faultless sound...In almost every poem there is a suprising passage of insight...Metras is an authentic, unpretentions moving voice. These are poems to read aloud, linger over, and share with friends. -- Robert Peters, Connecticut Poetry Review

"[Seafull Beach]'s feel, heft, and contents are an evocative experience" -- Virgina Quaterly Review

Until There Is Nothing Left: "Metras is writing a mytho-poetry here of stones and bridges, water and our bodies, the outer and inner places, the langscapes of mind and heart...Again and again, the poet goes through the threshold of the daily into the aware life that lies somewhere beyond words yet is rendered in the poem" -- Larry Smith, Small Press Review

The Moon in the Pool: "These poems in total beget silence and contemplation. Like fast moving water from ice-packed heights, Metras' words fall over us, crystalline and cleansing. Theor impace: indisputably bracing". -- Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene

"The Moon in the Pool is the work of a seasoned poet, a writer accustomed to having his way with words. But there is more to these poems; they make us what we already are. In other words, they tap into our shared humanity." -- Elvis Alves, The Compulsive Reader