"Dungy asks how we can survive despair and finds her answers close to the earth."–Diana Whitney, Kenyon Review
"Trophic Cascade frequently bears witness-to violence, to loss, to environmental degradation-but for Dungy, witnessing entails hope."–Julie Swarstad Johnson, Harvard Review Online
"Beneath her matter-of-fact, easy-going, sit-yourself-down, let-me-tell-it-like-it-is chatifying. Her power we take deadly seriously."–Matt Sutherland, Foreword Reviews
"[Trophic Cascade] asks us, in spite of the pain or difficulty of being human today, to find joy and vibrancy in our experiences."–Elizabeth Flock, PBS Newshour
"[W]hat it means to be truly alive seeps into even the simplest of actions Dungy's poems depict a universe of clockwork precision whose logic can be too complex for mortal minds."–Publishers Weekly
"Dungy asks how we can survive despair and finds her answers close to the earth."–Diana Whitney, Kenyon Review