“Rarely is poetry of such extremity--extremity of experience, extremity of spiritual practice and insight--presented in a style which manages to both horrify, and still break the heart, and, if not soothe, then at least find those reaches in the reader where there is compassion so open it awaits no recompense. Here is a poetry of witnessing--theological, emotional, intellectual--a private end to a century's horrors, a reminder that not all things begin again, and that from some reaches of experience instruction shines far less than the beauty of the survivor's report.” —Jorie Graham