RaveThe Kenyon Review\"In House of McQueen, her debut collection, Valerie Wallace is a master of contents under pressure ... The genius of this collection is the collaboration between poet and designer, and Wallace’s use of poetic technique—even something as seemingly insignificant as vowel sounds—to show how wearing orchards or the bloom of a damask pattern makes life take shape. This is Wallace’s first collection, but the poet’s understanding of craft is deep and historically-minded enough to dwell with McQueen’s cutting-edge aesthetic. Perhaps the end of \'Needles\' says it best: \'I can’t get over how it all works in together.\'\
