“Meridian’s kinetic sculpture of ideas and feeling, line and wind, works beautifully. It will work its way under your skin.”
— Ellen Miller-Mack, The Rumpus

“The prose blocks alone could have come together into a powerful, reflective essay. But Jesme weaves them together with sections of verse—always vivid, often painful—that complicate and elevate the poem such that a reader, savoring the last line, is immediately compelled to flip back to the first and begin again, tracking the resonant associations that Jesme builds in this deservedly award-winning book.”
— Kendell Newman Sadiik, Pleiades