The poems of Landau s stunning second collection are dark, urgent, sexy, deeply sad, and, above all, powerful. "Publishers Weekly, " starred review"

Landau s intimate, lonely poems are profoundly engaged with the experience of the self in its starkest moments: when it is deprived, nocturnal, barely lingual...She creates a deeply erotic and resonant encounter between the lyric I and its solitude. "The Boston Review"

She is both confessional and direct, like Sylvia Plath and Allen Ginsberg. Her taut, elegant, highly controlled constructions meditate upon yearning and selfhood Landau...