"Jacqueline Osherow's breezy tone and offhanded technical virtuousity are so pleasurable that they can almost (almost) distract us from the deep feeling that wells up in her poems. Here she numbers her losses, some of which are terrible, and marvels at the sacredness of the world. It is gratifying to read a poet working at the top of her powers."--Edward Hirsch
"I've read and admired most of Jacqueline Osherow's astonishing works, but now I must call a new poem, Poems from the Alhambra (for it is a single poem) a triumph, for it's her comical and almost wildly precise expression of what she sees, what it means, and what she loves. It's a long and demanding poem, and part of a wonderful group of poems in My Lookalike at the Krishna Temple. I urge anyone who wants to learn what can be discovered and cherished to read it."--Richard Howard
