The Constant Velocity of Trains
…Lea Deschenes is flirting with perfection. It's taken much too long for her words to reach a larger audience, an audience that's been searching fruitlessly for what her work has always offered - bold glimpses of what exhilarates, frightens and moves us. -Patricia Smith, "Blood Dazzler”…Lea Deschenes throws the well-aimed stone of her poetry through the glass houses of  hypocrisy and human coldness… she is at all times intelligent, tender, and wedded to the quest for self-knowledge...There's wisdom at work, and at play, in this book. -Alicia Ostriker, "No Heaven"…every poem feels entirely free to find its own voice, its own form. …this latest volume adds an absolute precision in charting our emotional minefields; a wisdom and a surety of touch that make these poems utterly convincing.  -Jack McCarthy, "Good Night”