[1] The book was hailed by notable poets and critics including Rodney Jones, Allison Joseph, and Karen Craigo.
Said Rodney Jones: "Meyerhofer has the inner resources and the craft to address worlds imagined and ideal, but he insists on writing chiefly of this one, and he does it fearlessly, making neither warmth nor anger….
"[2] Joseph called Leaving Iowa "…the start of a career that will mean much to those readers of poetry in search of a writer who will never falter in telling them the hard yet gorgeous truths of life.
Said Bilgere, "Meyerhofer’s tough, lovely poems remind us that the aim of being human… is to rise above ourselves, to take this sorry predicament and turn it into something shining and valuable.
"[4] Added Laux, "I like these poems, kinetic and half-crazed, they remind me that poetry is an explosion, that energy plus mass equals a dark magic.
[Keith Badowski & Ron Self Brick Road Poetry Press Columbus, GA; https://www.amazon.com/Damnatio-Memoriae-Michael-Meyerhofer/dp/0984100555/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1418903287&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=Damnatio+Memoriae.+Brick+Road+Poetry+Press.+June+2011] Retrieved on December 18, 2014.
Meyerhofer's fourth book of poems, What To Do If You're Buried Alive, is forthcoming in April, 2015 from Split Lip Press.
His first, Cardboard Urn, won the Copperdome Chapbook Contest from Southeast Missouri State University Press in 2005.
The first novel in the Dragonkin Trilogy, "Wytchfire" will be followed by two sequels, "The Knight of the Crane" and "The War of the Lotus," both finished and forthcoming by Red Adept Publishing.