“Green is for World is a book that expands on the childlike register of its title: it is open, vulnerable, curious.”
—Ange Mlinko, National Poetry Series judge
“Green Is for World is a primer for how a poet might map the imagination. And Leslie’s strange, lyrical syntax falls in love with the work of tracking what’s just below the surface of thought: trafficking in the near-spoken, the peculiar particulars, and in the unseen textures of lived experience—to develop a new archive for the elusive pathways of felt thinking.”
—Joshua Marie Wilkinson
“Juliana Leslie’s exciting new book is constantly opening up and breaking into light, revelation, and sound. Green is for World is a surprising book, wonderously achieved and lovingly composed.”
—Peter Gizzi
“Within the flickering bounds of an almost-still life, or a lumpy window, or perhaps more like a conversation with heat, Juliana Leslie’s Green is for World is rife with the finely-noised intimacy I might encounter in a room occupied by paintings that have been freed from the confines of light.”
—Sawako Nakayasu
“[Leslie's] ability to layer poetic texture in line after unpunctuated line of absurd-yet-somehow-familair imagery to evoke a feeling of refined incompleteness echoes the poems of Rae Armantrout and Kay Ryan.”
—Booklist
“These mercurial ‘love letters’ to the universe exude style. . . . Leslie’s poems whisper and whistle along, moving things and rearranging the path.”
—The Brooklyn Rail
