Critical Commentary
“Krysl is funny, fierce, and feminist in the best possible way, and a technician of variety and resourcefulness.” —John Updike
“Krysl’s poetry is funny, funky, tragic, brave, lyrical, humane, political and full of surprises....She is still writing the liveliest sestinas in America.” —Alicia Ostriker
“She has a poet’s compression, a novelist’s feel for the whole, and she is bitterly funny.” —Rosellen Brown
“Confidently shifting between satire and lyricism, Krysl’s potent, unflinching stories chart how conflict can become catharsis....” —New York Times Book Review