RaveThe Adroit Journal\"If the acrostic \'Skeleton\' poems are expressions of the speaker’s discursive mind, the \'Flesh\' poems are sensuous, somatic embodiments ... If the acrostic \'Skeleton\' poems are existential preoccupations with alienation and mortality, and the \'Flesh\' poems are sensual expressions of desire and closeness, the final poem sequence, \'Ecstasies,\' is a happy medium that recommits the speaker (and us) to the sweetness of life, a tribute to human tenderness in the face of fraught interpersonal connections ... In Skeletons, Landau has used formal constraint to amplify and explore her alienated speaker’s anxieties and concerns. Through juxtaposition of form, syntactical variation, and a distinctive lexicon, she has also liberated her speaker, compelling them to \'inhabit your skin like you’re still here.\'\
