Haskins... understands Lorca's idea of duende a passionate spirit and evokes it naturally in her work. -- Booklist

"She is certainly one of the few original voices among American poets. She takes big risks and her poetry penetrates straight to the marrow of the bone." -- Midwest Quarterly

"One longs to know this poet to share her wise communion with whatever is alive in all its manifestations." -- Alsop Review

"She knows we are rooted to the earth but long for stars. And she's wise enough to know that love searches us out." -- Northwest Arkansas Times

"She writes with the startling freedom and grace of a kite flying and with the variety and assurance of invention that reveal in image after image the dream behind the waking world." -- W.S. Merwin

"No American poet of her generation creates more brilliant images or more compelling voices." -- Susan Ludvigson

"Lola Haskins' range is broad her perceptions are always surprising. Natural objects surpass themselves... in this lively adventuresome collection." -- Maxine Kumin