Previous Praise BluetsBalancing pathos with philosophy, she created a new kind of classicism, queer in content but elegant, almost cool in shape.
Hilton Als, The New Yorker
It's an impossible book to describe without simply handing it to you; it is, hackneyed as it is to say, a book to be experienced. I can only report that I am reading it again and again, that the resonances between the (seemingly) disparate propositions are startling and emotional, that I suspect your reaction will be different and also quite wonderful.
Peter Rock, The Rumpus
Nelson's expressive style springs from her subject as much as the content, in turn, inflects her vocabulary, tone and structure. Seeking such reciprocity–no less an ideal than, say, "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings"–may radically redefine poetry, as it increasingly becomes the genre that is not one.
Albert Mobilio, Bookforum
