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Reviews:
Nina MacLaughlin for The Boston Globe, Christopher Spaide for Sewanee Review, C. Francis Fisher for Los Angeles Review of Books, Zach Savich for On the Seawall, Daniel Schonning for Orion Magazine, Niina Pollari for Fence Digital, Christopher Kempf for Preposition, Celeste Chen for Harvard Review, Oriana Ullman for The Paris Review Daily, Christian Wessels for Cleveland Review of Books, Maggie Millner for The Millions, “A Year in Reading,” Richie Hofmann for PSA, “The Poet’s Nightstand,” Jesse Nathan for McSweeney’s, “Short Conversations with Poets”
“How many voices can sustain an entire book-length poem? I think of Claudia Rankine and Maggie Nelson. And here, Mannheimer, as she thinks aloud on the page with her supple, discerning intelligence. This is that rare work that is both profoundly alert to its historical moment and also, in the questions it entertains and the magnitude of its intent, timeless. It seems to me a lesson in how to make something of where we find ourselves.” —Louise Glück
“Multiple readings of Rachel Mannheimer’s thoroughly fresh debut reward and fascinate like multiple visits to Walter De Maria’s eponymous Earth Room installation. This book is a charismatic travelogue for our interior and exterior landscapes; it’s a conceptual art catalog with a poet’s notes written in the margins; it’s a one-act play of engrossing verbal theater. The stupendous Earth Room makes language a place. It’s roomy, it’s personal, it’s every day.” —Terrance Hayes
“Earth Room, a narrative poem of force and beguiling, transfixing energy, moves between New York, Alaska, Berlin, the moon, and Mars, as Mannheimer excavates history, ever-present, ever-unfolding, and how art rises out of it, in response to it, despite it … Mannheimer writes with a propulsive matter-of-factness, a savvy, strong, and layered way of making sense of creation and time and place.” —Nina MacLaughlin, The Boston Globe