"Compelling, appealing, cinematic . . . Rekdal refreshes the meaning and the image of being displaced in this world." The Boston Globe

"Rekdal's work deeply satisfies, for it witnesses and wonders over the necessary struggles of human awareness and being." Rain Taxi

"In acknowledging the disappointing facts of our existence and singing her way into its amazement, she has created poetry that lives alongside the misery we sometimes witnessand sometimes cause." Slate

Paisley Rekdal questions how identity and being inhabit metaphorical and personified...