“The act of reading these verbal experiments both pleasantly trips us up and trips a thinking switch that illuminates exciting new poetic territory.”
—Booklist
“Nadelberg’s smart, delightful, deliberately disorganized third book at once carries forward the rangy, nonlinear oddity of her second . . . and recovers the stellar charm of her debut.”
—American Poets
“Amanda Nadelberg’s poems . . . are jumping, funny, romantic, and frequently lyrical . . . which in the immediate reading is almost pure music.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“Many folks read poets for their voices, and Nadelberg’s is delightful.”
—The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Reading the poems in Amanda Nadelberg’s Songs from a Mountain is like rappelling from the roof of a very tall apartment building—each poem acts as a small glimpse through the window of a brief moment of time in someone’s life.”
—Bustle
“Nadelberg . . . surfs the sonic currents of contemporary language and stands in the back rush of a period spent observing.”
—The Dallas Morning News
“The virtue lies in the emphasis, made surprising by Nadelberg’s nimble leaps, on how we understand and not just what we understand.”
—Ron Slate
“Amanda Nadelberg’s poetry resembles a city where all kinds of things are happening at once, some of them funny and others pretty scary."
—John Ashbery
“Songs from a Mountain, rhetoric runs wild. . . .Well done, Nadelberg.”
—Aaron Kunin
