“With their paradoxical co-embodiment of impulse and exactitude, Michelle Gil-Montero’s lyrics remind me of Marosa Di Giorgio’s work, and of a neuron’s. Here poetics is physics: what’s linked in a few syllables of sound and association can have at once dazzling and coruscating effects depending on the scale or closeness with which it is perceived. Thus the lyric’s intimacy is both gorgeous and terrible.”

“By dint of / positioning,’ these poems unfold a lyric voice with few certainties but, rather, positionings, juxtapositions, movements across and over, settlings then movements again. Hushed, dense but allowing breath, pared in language, Gil-Montero’s poems are multiple in form, taut. They resonate and return, pulse. An excellent début.”

“Michelle Gil-Montero’s poems are resonantly visionary, making visible the delicate stitches that attach houses, bodies, words. The precise notations within the vastness of experience create an attention so exquisite, each minute shift resounds, calling to mind H.D.’s ‘intricate songs’ lost measure.’ This is a book of exceptional insight and immediacy.”