Kwasny has written us a book of charms, in the old sense. A book to bind us to the world and to each other. - Sarah Gridley

While many contemporary poets look at the natural world, few have the rarified eyes to gaze out from it as Melissa Kwasny does in The Nine Senses, a quietly magnificent collection of prose poems that can be read as luminous, rill-fresh engagements with Sufi scholar Henry Corbin’s question: Not “what” but “who” is the earth? - Christopher Dombrowski, Orion Magazine