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“In the elegant formulations of her second collection, The Afterimage, Phillis Levin explores the gaps and forges the links between language, thought, and matter. She is an ‘alchemist of the vernacular’ whose clarities are hard-won and whose mindfulness is lit by a passionate flame. She has written a glowing book.”
- Edward Hirsch

“Phillis Levin reaches beyond form and beyond occasion to draw in a deep, light mystery: the world we know and yet do not know, until we meet it here in her mercurial poems.”
- Jean Valentine

“Her strong statements, too severe to be lyric merely, are mostly recuperations of the sacramental from our metropolitan or provincial lives. As in the masterful “Prologue/Epilogue,” the poet is concerned with the degree to which we approximate, coincide with, or miss utterly the mythical instances so surprisingly vouchsafed by our ‘existence. She envisions, rather like Christina Rossetti in this, the cost of such missing, and the ecstasy of such coincidence—of equal necessity to her poetics, which is cautery.”
- Richard Howard

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