Butterfly Valley: A Requiem
A fear of what might be and a love of what is speak eloquently from these texts. --World Literature TodayA profoundly self-reflexive work, a poem about the difficulty of writing a poem about death. --Beloit Poetry Journal, Marion K. StockingChristensen's work is a portal into a whole other world of formal invention and imagistic integrity. --Camille-Yvette Welsch,ForeWord Magazine, January/February 2005Christensen's work...creates the physical laws of its own world anew. --American Poet, Fall 2004Elegant, formally inspired, and gutsy. --David Biespiel,The Oregonian, 5 December 2004Excellent works—each of them contain Christensen's major themes and quite expertly reveal her formally experimental talents. --New Review of Literature, Douglas Messerli, Spring 2005Famous in Europe, unknown here...a formalist who makes her own rules, then turns the game around with another rule. --Eliot Weinberger