RaveAsian Review of BooksAmbitious ... There is no fixed focal point linking poems sequentially; a narrative chronology threads the work instead ...Qi’s poetry is marked throughout by a steady eloquence which comes to touching fruition ...At other points Qi’s fevered language and mixed metaphors push our minds through synaesthetic whirls ... Qi’s synesthetic eloquence is on a roll as the end of the collection nears. She conveys a delicate fragility...via internal rhymes and alliteration ... Qi’s infinite scope recalls those other exploratory Americans: the beatniks, Jim Morrison even, and his better colleague in poetry Michael McClure. Her relative youth may well signal more startling work to come.
