“In her latest collection, Sikelianos . . . employs her joy-demanding title as more than a refrain, cleverly letting it unfold as a humanist battle cry amid the earth’s downfall.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Ambitious, powerful, and well produced; for all sophisticated poetry readers.”
—Library Journal
“Make Yourself Happy impels the reader to discover that whatever happiness we face/make is more complicated than we initially believed.”
—American Book Review
“Slowly but surely . . . Sikelianos unravels the whole notion of happiness.”
—Vertigo
“Whether Sikelianos is writing about making a paper globe, making a family, making a statement, or making yourself, she surveys the field of human endeavors to find new prospects for care amid precarious political contexts.”
—BOMB
“Enhanced by its illustrations and well researched, Make Yourself Happy is committed to seeing language in all its vibrancy make a plug for the universe.”
—Rain Taxi
“Yes, this book will make you happy—it will also make you invigorated, curious, thoughtful, and astonished.”
—The Ribbon
“Sikelianos’ voice is unmistakable, and her poetic continuance of the observant, the ethical, and the oracular awake is in vital presence.”
—EOAGH
“In Make Yourself Happy, Eleni Sikelianos evinces a neuro-psychological state counter to the miswrought biology that has haunted the Occident since the dawn of Roman times.”
—Will Alexander
“This book is your invitation to the post-human pool party of the future.”
—Rae Armantrout
“With her native Greek wisdom and her American exuberance, Eleni takes us into the different layers which make our daily lives, perceptions, thoughts . . . as they take form, and thanks to her become an initiatique, even archeological, journey.”
—Etel Adnan
