"Hafizah Geter is the kind of poet I can't do without. She questions how poetry operates in our culture and is unafraid to show us the ugly. She is committed to the public, to the way social imaginaries become real ones. It is unglamorous work and only a few poets do it on the regular, who use the title of "poet" as a vocation, as interrogator of false meritocracies, as a way to distill how racism works in our institutions."–Megan Fernandes, BOMB Magazine
"Geter's vivid debut invokes the pain of familial dislocation, illness, and death, exacerbated by the twin plagues of xenophobia and racism It is this violence, captured in rich, musical language, that command such power."–Publishers Weekly
"In the resulting poems Geter moves through her grief while refusing ideas of whom America belongs to and who belongs in America."–Poets & Writers
"Incisive, devastating poems about what it means to be American, and who gets to be American and who doesn't."–Roxane Gay, bookshop.org
