"Mercer’s concerns and invocations are much larger than our limited, compartmentalized understanding of topics such as gender and love, surpassing these categories and speaking directly to the human soul..."
"...haunting yet wildly mesmerizing."
"...a breathless, uncomfortable, and important collection of poems on depression, womanhood, voices, and darkness, churning and pulsing with both pain and angry, unflinching hope."
“Mental illness, memory, and myth are not elements you can solve and walk away from”: An Interview with Christina Im on the Half Mystic Blog.
"The poems are unafraid in their vulnerability and rage to redefine constructs of gender, in which the importance of one’s own voice is central. The poems in this collection are restless and immediate and an intimate dialogue with the world."
"I want us to pay heed to the darker realities, the undercurrents, the unpleasant truths that have been hidden and silenced": An Interview with Kanika Lawton