Nilling / BookThug (ePub)

"I felt myself hypnotically inducted into the whirling galaxy of this book, one of whose foci, indeed, is the mechanism (although that is too cold a word)—the miracle, really—of reading .... I should have been a proper scholar, I think ruefully, reading this." —Nada Gordon

"It is poetry where there is still the possibility of imagining language differently, and it is by reading that we bring the possibility of that freedom into our lives. The practice of reading she has spent the book developing, sometimes subtly, indirectly and sometimes overtly, finds its reason here... In these pages it becomes a practice of profound openness. It is, first of all, a disciplined putting aside of the self, and the act of reading a way of allowing something else to settle into its place. This is the openness. It is an intimacy, an act of allowing another's language to settle deep inside you, to mingle with your most delicate parts." —Alan Reed for Lemon Hound

"As we’ve come to expect, Robertson's language is luxuriously lyrical and a pure pleasure to read, regardless of what she has to say ... But there are real depths of thought here—form and content never leave each other for too long in this dance—and there is a wonderfully idiosyncratic drift in the direction of Robertson's argument that does indeed read more like a novel than most essays we are used to now." —Stephen Collis, Jacket 2