"There has never been a poetry quite like this before, so passionately and understandably barbaric...and, withal, stormily beautiful, at the border where beauty tolerates the sublime." --- Calvin Bedient, Parnassus
"Magnificently intricate...Tory Dent's book of poems is about much more than AIDS. This is a complex, bold work not afraid to be cerebral (makes your brain sweat)... that challenges the way this disease -- born of, surrounded and perpetuated by silence -- is represented" -- Gabrielle Glancy, Poetry Flash
"Some of the most exciting new verse anyone's written in a very long time. We are reading the construction of a life force in all its glory...the bigness of her imagery is matched by an emotional gigantism throughout that sustains the immensity of the threat she's experiencing." -- Eileen Myles, Denver Quarterly
"Verbosity and passion mark Dent's collection of poems. The poems roll out of their language and rhythms, and what seems to matter is that rolling force...it's a language machine. These poems follow the criss-crossing path over the line dividing life and death. Dante may be the closest analogue since he, like this speaker, had a guide and spoke of a personal crisis...yet this guide knows no more than the poet...this guide offers no consolation." -- Nora Mitchell and Emily Skoler, New England Review