"It's not that Hillary wants to do away with the limits of perception, the framing of the diorama -- it's that she wants to investigate the frustration, and the embodiment, that it entails. Living in a small world, a 'safely kept scene strangely bound' produces distortion, and that distortion has a poetics and a place."

-Natalie Cecire

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"...the words seem to drip across and down the pages-a manner which belies the many layers of the work, not the least of which is an implied density of research, e.g. perhaps into biology, religion and botany. I use the notion of 'drips' partly because of the fragmentary nature of the text, and how the words are placed against the page as if the poet deliberately dripped the words into their positions."

-Eileen Tabios

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