RaveThe Cortland Review... momentous ... Limón presses her reader to consider the quiet celebrations, the surprising discoveries of the self, the unshakeable reality of love in the landscape of suffering ... Are cycles, then, a kindness or an evil? Amid their inevitable movement, the constant example of yet another area where we humans have so little control, the speaker asserts agency by thwarting, challenging, resisting the life that hurts her. She is deliberate in choosing, naming, declaring her own magnificence, but at the same time, she refrains from leaving an indelible mark on the world.
Aimee Nezhukumatathil
RaveThe Tupelo Quarterly\"Touching upon familiar themes of identity and placement that recall her earlier works, Nezhukumatathil invites the world to see \'the dark sky as oceanic, boundless, limitless\' ... She gathers the vast geographies of the world together in a collective theater, as her poems sweep across Singapore, the Philippines, China, India, Switzerland, and the United States. Her found poems manifest the clumsy misunderstandings in cross-cultural encounters and the beauty of each place in its sense of wonder.\
Jenny Xie
RaveThe Tupelo Quarterly\"Jenny Xie’s second poetry collection, Eye Level, reveals the prowess of a new contemporary literary great. The title theme weaves a cohesive fabric of perception—the physical, metaphysical, and cultural act of seeing and being seen—among a rich array of topics ranging from solitude to heritage, migration to land and (dis)placement.\
