Melissa Kwasny’s poems are so exact in their movement and presentation, so fresh in their botanical and observatory language, they invoke for the reader, with aching clarity, what it would be like to be brave enough to touch both the inner and outer worlds simultaneously and with identical honesty and care. - Christopher Howell

As nearly all our great poets tell us, it is by attending scrupulously to other that we best understand ourselves. So it is that in Melissa Kwasny’s tender, brilliantly described encounters with the vegetable world we see, in the midst of the most respectful observations of each beloved species—whether it be tree lichen, kinnikinnick, wild rose, human being, or rue—great depths of world and self knowledge. - Patricia Goedicke

Melissa Kwasny’s sense and use of language is richly sensual, acutely attentive, and robust in its musicality. - Paul S. Piper, Drumlummon Views