“An artful collection of poems that . . . are often raw and unpredictable. There is a grace and beauty in the poems that shows of Darst’s background in dance as the poems pirouette form one subject to another.”
—San Francisco Book Review
“Like a horoscope, the book is something a reader can return to daily, finding new meaning each time.”
—The Star Tribune
“DANCE is filled with movement. . . . [Darst] has the unique ability to express motion with words.”
—MPR
“DANCE reads like a ballet in three scenes—hell, earth and paradise. . . . Darst pushes the boundaries with this second volume.”
—Galatea Resurrects
“A complex meditation on the notions of hell and earth, run through the filter of the local landscape.”
—MinnPost
“DANCE is to The Divine Comedy as Darst is to Dante: heretical. Where once terza rima could take a Christian from hell to paradise, here our secular poet pilgrim must make from montage a map of the contemporary, its unstable terrain supersaturated by information and violent inequities alike. An ambitious, ethical book.”
—Brian Teare
“Anchored in a shifting history, propelled by a phosphorescent phrasing that subtly startles, it’s a book whose structure echoes Dante while its tone invokes the gothic. It will keep you up at night.”
—Cole Swensen
