Reading Like Love is akin to entering Nelson’s workroom to look at her maquettes, her conceptions in development, before we see them fully realized ... Throughout Like Love, Nelson is herself a poet of the question spirit.
A scrapbook of still-fresh memories — miscellaneous, uneven, and indispensable ... Throughout the collection, Nelson risks imprecision to preserve her subjects’ ability to stay in motion, even if that means they elude her grasp.