"Do we sound like robots or do robots sound like us? In poems of conscience, intelligence, and wit, Zoë Hitzig presents arguments in support of both possibilities. Mostly, throughout Mezzanine's many ingenious premises and modes of address, what I hear is an ageless stark wisdom calling us to decide who and what we are, and what we are willing to heed." – Tracy K. Smith
"In Mezzanine, we confront a world of diminishing returns–yet with powerful poetic yield." – Carol Muske-Dukes
"Zoë Hitzig's exquisitely engineered Mezzanine lands the reader in a nether place of talking commodities, misplaced agency, category mistakes, and radical dysphoria. Into such dire circumstances Hitzig dives headfirst, feverish, an investigator who grapples with reality by recreating it from the inside out. In other words, she is a poet, and an extraordinary one at that...Here and there, and just in time, Mezzanine reminds us what there is to love in the human, and what it feels like to to feel it's still too soon to give up." – Timothy Donnelly, author of The Problem of Many
"[An] astonishing literary debut...This poet indicts all of us for historical crimes against the first person. at the edge of extinction, she carries on her inquest into identity, however fugitive its traces may be." – Srikanth Reddy, author of Voyager