This book's most important poem is "In the Red Dress I Wear to Your Funeral." The poem is spoken through multiple voices: a borscht-belt comedian, a fairy tale protagonist, JFK assassination conspiracy theorist and a Grecian oracle without ever misguiding the reader into believing these are voices of the poet while still revealing the poet's "truth." In brief, these speakers are emotionally true despite being factually fictitious. To my reading, Belieu is in the lineage of notable women writers such as Denise Levertov, Adrienne Rich (see "Diving into the Wreck) and of course Sylvia Plath. There are also nearly genetic traits of e.e. cummings, Allen Ginsberg and Frederico Lorca. As others have written she is a poetry-sibling of the contemporary Josh Bell but also Olena Kalytiak Davis and Mark Bibbins. The aforementioned "Red Dress" reminds of the diction Aaron Kunin's "The Sore Throat." And Her Soul Out Of Nothing (Brittingham Prize in Poetry)The Sore Throat & Other PoemsNo Planets Strike