RaveThe Times Literary Supplement (UK)... some beautiful erotic poems and joyous celebrations of queer love ... She sometimes displays a tendency, perhaps because of the discursive and expansive nature of her contemplations, to linger on a thought or image for too long (only two poems here are short enough to fit onto one page). Then again, the best poems are among the longest ... The paradox of the book’s title is clear: in America, there is no postcolonial; in these poems, too, histories of land domination and genocide collide with the imperial present, turning touch and desire – even the possibility of writing a love poem – into radical acts of preservation ... at once a poignant answer and a call to attention.
