Lee Upton
"At first, Angie Estes' words stand out bright as silver tacks on the page, and in the next instant they shift and glide, turn sinuous, and trail in their wake startling perceptions about memory, sorrow, innocence, and knowledge."
Langdon Hammer
“Enchantée:you will be, when you meet these poems.The enchantment has to do with incantation: the way Angie Estes puts experience into song. She lets words take the initiative, as Mallarme said poets must, to see where the secret logic of sound will lead.Ricocheting among languages, places, and time periods, the play is plangent, tinged by nostalgia historical and personal.But Estes is too fascinated with what is happening on the page, and the next one after that, too interested in poetry'spotential, to get hung up about the past. This is a poetry of style, elegance, and fresh surprise, for the ear and the eye, the heart and the mind.It reminds me why I read.”