Starred Wire
Reviews

Publishers Weekly :
"Mlinko adds more lyricism and more depth to the Frank O'Hara– inspired verve of her much-noticed debut, and the result should raise even bigger waves. Verbal tumbles and linguistic curlicues play sometimes for ontological rewards, at other times just for fun . . . her poetry's sky-high quotient of pure pleasure means that even readers used to smoother fare ought to delight in her manifold ways."

John Ashbery:
"A fine-grained light like that of a 19th-century Danish landscape painting shimmers throughout these gorgeously tactile and tactful poems. Mlinko leads us through a mysterious space where cultural references and private recollections mingle and metamorphose into startling, dreamlike atmospheres in which ‘blue equals blue and lemon equals lemon' and ‘the roses [have] grown to obscure the rose-names.'"

Bob Holman, National Poetry Series judge:
"The making of a Mlinko poem is nothing less than a new way of making a poem . . . rhymes and anagrams, puns and palindromes all churn beneath the charming, charged skin o' poem. It's a heady heady brew—O'Hara conversation, Ashbery sophistication, Koch hilarity, Schuyler shapeliness, Guest adventures, Notley grain, Mayer utopia, Padgett whimsy, Oulipo oofs . . . [Mlinko] revs, she's gone, the world map is redrawn."

Charles North:
"Things collide in Ange Mlinko's wonderful poems—words, attitudes, phrasings, meanings—and the sparks fly. Her poetry is simultaneously tough-minded and gorgeous. If I had to bet on which young poets will be read in twenty or thirty years, my money would be on her."