“She has the timing and wit of a great comedian and the intense, quirky symbolism of a prophet.”
— Image Update
“Underlying the overall intensity of the collection are . . .the startling juxtapositions of images and sudden metaphors. . . . But she never loses the familiar touch, the honest voice.”
— The Midwest Quarterly
“Her great genius is her use of metaphors. . . Toward the end of the book, the poems seem to step out of their narrative constraints, as interesting as their stories are, and become pure metaphor.”
— Thom Satterlee, Christianity and Literature