"The passion, playfulness, and regret in these wonderful poems will make
many women think this book was written just for them." -- Susan Cheever
"Susan Kinsolving's poems skate with a dark elegance on the thin ice
between the upper air and a deepening sorrow, between the day's figures
and memory's pattern. But she's headed towards love: the distant shore,
the beckoning warmth; and by the end of Dailies & Rushes she has gotten
herself -- and, to our delight and gratitude, brought us as
well--triumphantly there." -- J. D. McClatchy
"What rings with authenticity in Susan Kinsolving's poems is a lovely
severity. . . . Sorrow and courage and pleasure register themselves in
lucid distillations, like the purities of winter air." -- Anthony Hecht
"'Things just are, ' Susan Kinsolving writes, in a matter-of-fact tone
that belies a fiery intensity. In her poetry, commonplace things are
imbued with a magical aura. Her wry wit clarifies as it deepens a tragic
vision." -- Grace Schulman
"In her first major collection Susan Kinsolving shows herself to be a
poet of ravenous amplitudes, of wit schooled by feeling, of observations
had owed by memory, and of landscape rising to what she calls 'an
oblique sublimity' which is also the hallmark of her art." -- Edward
Hirsch