Melissa Kwasny’s work serves as a brilliant tonic, reminding us of the essential gravitas of poems of distinction. - Albert Goldbarth

Kwasny’s methods of inclusivity and measurement are as open to empiricism as they are to invocation—of animal spirit, of myth, of the great poet philosophers, of the land itself.
- Rusty Morrison

One of the ten best books of 2009. (Huffington Post, selected by Anis Shivani).