Washington Independent Review of Books 'February Exemplar' "Brown's poetry "reads the way a dream feels . There are so many wonderfully thoughtful - beautiful - pieces here: a collection of very personal sonnets to her grandchildren . homages to old family photos . remembering desperate, deceitful students . There are close to fifty poems here, and they all are simply wonderful ." - Library Thing "This slender volume feels like a coffee table art book. It has that kind of weight. It's images rise from each page gradually.

" - The Broadkill Review "In every move she makes, she works the extremes in poetry, to combine passive thoughts and active situations to create a polarizing tension of intellectual excitement. In poetry, our thinking comes first - then with Brown, come the complications and layers. Her brand is weaving disparate thought forms. Sylvia Plath called poetry ‘a tyrannical art.' Brown is meticulous at it. For her, nothing but the best will do." - Washington Independent Review of Books "Reading a poem by Brown is a lesson in how to read one's life, how each small thing, each seemingly casual detail, is in fact connected to perceptions and understandings of profound significance that we can all divine if only we calm our vision enough to fully experience the perishing present." - World Literature Today "throughout this fine book, Brown sweeps a seine net through what might seem like only loosely-schooling facts of the world, but through each poem's intelligent movement and construction, the vibrant connections emerge.

Brown's work insists that the poetry of the earth--that is to say, poetry itself--is ceasing never"- Miramar Poetry Journal.