Throughout the seven sections that are woven into a unified whole,
Adnan displays a remarkable sensibility for the precise details that
fuse the landscapes of individual and social nightmares. Through an
ingenious synthesis of the best elements of the surrealist, cut-up and
Language schools of writing, Adnan has attained a unique poetic voice.
The San Francisco Chronicle
She has an exceptional gift for the mystical delineation of an
immediate experience and achieves an otherworldly density of image,
line after line. Etel Adnan with this book of poems establishes herself
as a major poet who belongs beside internationally established poets
like Tranströmer, Bly, Neruda, Vallejo, and Pessoa.
Eric Sellin, Celfan Review