"Kearney's prosody is miraculous.....I can't think of another writer as gifted as Kearney is at sound."
–Ken Chen, NPR "Reading Kearney's poems is like being inside of a crystal – depending on the time of day and how the light is shining through the crystal, the poem's meaning can change. It is truly a disorienting prismatic experience."
–Victoria Chang, LA Review of Books "Kearney's exquisite poems dissolve our sight, force us to speak aloud, and compel us to hunt and find within the illogic logic of our lives. Patter is its own genius music–revolutionary, intimate, and everyone's"
–Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen