"Camille Dungy has a garden of verses that spring up with the sunshine
or hide with you in the dusk. "Cleaning" best sums up What to Eat, What
to Drink, What to Leave for Poison, an amazing poetry collection, when
Dungy pens "understanding clearly/what is fatal to the body./I only
understand too late/what can be fatal to the heart." Take an ice tea and
sit on the veranda or take a glass of wine and prop up in bed but
whatever way you like your poetry, this book is a must."
--Nikki Giovanni, author of The Collected Poems of Nikki Giovanni and
Black Feeling, Black Talk
"The sorrow here is ironic and unsentimental and yet Camille Dungy's
vision is all joy. Even as anti-psalms, these poems are pure
transcendence."
--Chris Abani, author of GraceLand and Dog Woman
"Camille Dungy shares with us in this manuscript her sharp, clear and
honest ear and her unswerving commitment to the voice of life. She is a
brave poet writing true poems and I salute the music and courage of her
work."
--Lucille Clifton, author of Blessing the Boats and Mercy