PositiveThe Guardian (UK)Compelling ... Shapiro skillfully reveals the fundamentally theatrical nature of political hearings, with good and bad actors, and participants eager to derail the initiative without a clear understanding of creativity and theatrical production.
Louise Glück
RaveTimes Literary Supplement (UK)Her smallest book to date, it nevertheless accrues power in typical Glück fashion: through polyphonic progression, metaphysical contradiction and intimate addresses to an imagined \'you\' ... Louise Glück has written some of the most incantatory, sorrowful, wrenching lyrics in American poetry. Her work is not for readers who want to be coddled, but for those who can apprehend that psychological dissonance, difficult as it may be to endure, is evidence of life: a life worth documenting through the alluring ecstasies of love, pain and radical change, as well as more mundane tasks such as gardening, sitting by a pond or, as in her new book, dying.
