An exuberant, subtle, endlessly inventive original.
— Harold Bloom
Susan Wheeler’s poems are sly, cagey, hilarious, and brilliant.
—Rick Moody, Poetry Magazine
Formally dazzling and spiritually unforgiving.
— Publishers Weekly
Susan Wheeler’s deft touch and flawless ear have produced an irresistible work, both fresh and sage.
—Toni Morrison
Susan Wheeler’s narrative glamour finds occasions in unlikely places . . ; What at first seems cacophonous comes in the end to seem invested with a mournful dignity.
— John Ashbery
Wheeler holds the door open for a jumble of history . . . Economics and emotion face each other across a charged field; stuff gathers in the middle, glittery as a sack of diamonds.
— Joshua Clover, The New York Times Book Review
Her energy and devotion to detail make her a virtuoso of variety, of vision — but she also possesses an ear for passion and its profound loss.