"The stunning latest from Barnett (Human Hours) blends the witty and the philosophical to offer a study in 'restricted fragile materials, ' or the bewildering condition of being alive. Urbane, perceptive, and starkly humane, these are poems of quiet alarm, at once companionable and singular."–Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Barnett's fourth collection applies a quirky eye and sparkling intelligence to the topic of loneliness."
–The New York Times Book Review "There is a devastating down-to-earth marriage of wit and elegy in Barnett's transcendent fourth collection, which opens in childhood. . . ."
–Rebecca Morgan Frank, Literary Hub "Through poems of startling clarity and delicate humor,
Solutions for the Problem of Bodies in Space grapples with the ontological absurdity of our large-scale and everyday failures, finding space to elegize and celebrate both what we can and cannot control."
–James Ciano, Los Angeles Review of Books