"Gioseffi's writing is appealing... Engaging, filled with energy.... irresistible.
Larry McMurty, The Washington Post. Pulitzer Prize: Terms of Endearment

"Gioseffi's work overflows with poetic vision."
Nona Balakian, former staff reviewer, The New York Times

"... a gifted writer.... A stunning essay [afterword]. It should be a book."
Galway Kinnell, Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award winning poet

"Whatever Daniela does, she does well. Among other things, I'd put my life in her hands.... Dickinson is lucky Daniela took hers in her hands."
Grace Paley, Former Poet Laureate of VT. NY State Fiction Award

"Startlingly fresh. Animated. Voluptuous. Gioseffi's writing is mythopoeic."
Mary Pradt, Library Journal

"Gioseffi's writing is imaginatively rich, startling, intelligent, with a wide range of reading behind it, and relevant to the most profound issues of our times."
John Logan, Former poetry editor: The Nation

"I like the way your essay richly evokes the life and times of Dickinson."
Robert Hass, Former Poet Laureate USA

"The essay [afterword] on Dickinson is fascinating and convincing...."
Alice Quinn, Director: Poetry Society of America

"Daniela's is an adamant poet's world where the poem is the source of all good."
Bob Holman, PBS: The United States of Poetry, and Bowery Poetry Club, NY