'As invigorating and idiosyncratic a collection as this reviewer has encountered in some time. A must-read.'
Seth Abramson, Huffington Post 'I haven't read a book of poetry as tonally sly (strange), and as formally surprising
in that it never levels off into a settled shape, though the voicing is always grounded in ongoing immediacy
as Jenny Sampirisi's ... Read moreCroak in a long time. The world this writing performs takes deformation as a kind of functional and nonetheless staged condition its characters give off and exploit, emotional intelligence streaming beneath the action with a perfectly measured balance of humour and consequence.'
Anselm Berrigan, author of Free Cell and Notes From Irrelevance Show Less