Wow.
Michael Leong's Big Other review of
The Best of (What's Left of) Heaven doesn't miss a trick. It's an exhaustive take on Byrne's use of form and subtlety. Among other things, he writes:
The “small things” that are her poems connect to each other in such enriching and dialogic ways that The Best of (What’s Left Of) Heaven becomes, in the process of reading, greater than the sum of its constitutive parts. Taken as a whole it amounts to an oftentimes comedic, sometimes steely-eyed, but ultimately compassionate manifesto on how to live life poetically.
You can read Leong's whole review
here.
