“Reading though the manuscript is like diving into a deep pool contained within a cavern, the resonance and echoing qualities provide such distinction, it is impossible to confuse the experience of this reading with anything else.”
—The New York Journal of Books
“A rich and momentous book, which should establish Anna Moschovakis as one of the most important poets writing today.”
—The Kenyon Review
“Perhaps what is needed now is what this book supplies: beautiful and fraught complexity. . . . Philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, and other realms of theory are woven throughout the book, which never creates an academic distance, but builds a path toward intimacy.”
—The Boston Review
“It feels smart, unsettled—at times evasive, and at others so straightforward that it hurts.”
—American Poets
“The poem and the collection it calls home pulse with lines full of power.”
—Flavorwire
“If you’re interested in poetry that defies the boundaries of language and structure, They and We Will Get into Trouble for This is the collection for you.”
—Bustle
“Moschovakis achieves perfectly the anxiety of inexactness by claiming the dilemma of language.”
—Fanzine
“This book completes what I consider an essential poetic trilogy. It has expanded my sense of how I, you, they, we might address one another in the present tense of art.”
—Ben Lerner
“As happy as the day is long I’ll get myself into the kind of trouble Moschovakis’s new book invites—the trouble linked to agitation (L. turbulus) and the confusion that comes from being one among many (L. turba, for crowd). Its parts decidedly intertextual and polyglot, think of it as a turbulence machine.”
—Mónica de la Torre
“Working in Moschovakis’ day and age will keep a poet ethical and unfoolish.”
—Simone White
