RaveLos Angeles ReviewAlthough the book roughly traces an arc that enacts illness, loss, and bereavement, the speaker begins with poems set in the days surrounding her mother’s death. \'The Last Visitation\' is a deft and wrenching account the speaker’s decision to take her mother off life support ... Typical of Qi’s poems, and indicative of the remarkable coherence of the collection as a whole, the effect of the poem is amplified by considering it in context ... Grief, like the echoes within and between Qi’s poems, like the body itself, remains the pervasive element of the present, even as it recedes into the past.
