RaveLibrary Journal... alternately scathing, funny, resigned, and transcendent ... Whether probing the arbitrary power of a U.S. customs agent or the language to which one defaults, speakers confront the gulfs between self and home. The fragmented long poems of the second and third sections effectively utilize absence and space to mirror these ideas ... Blistering in its clear-sightedness, this collection offers a fierce, beautiful closing that dares to imagine \'a beckoning, a way.\' A bold and uncompromising book with virtuosic emotional range; highly recommended.
