"Elegiac...eloquently told...profoundly moving...Trethewey is clearly a poet to savor." –Maxine Kumin
"In a very few years Natasha Trethewey has created a small body of nearly flawless poetry." –Rodney Jones
"[Natasha Tretheway's] voice is a rare, beautiful gift to the reader." –William Ferris, Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History, UNC Chapel Hill
"Natasha Trethewey serves our profound need for that rare thing–artistically fine Civil War poetry...She is our Native Guard." –David Madden, Louisiana State University, author of Sharpshooter: A Novel of the Civil War –