"Rae: lexical powerhouse. Rae: scientist of intimacies. The words burst as though the poet could not contain them."—Thylias Moss "Her capacity for eloquence is as vast as her rhetoric is supple."—Raymond McDaniel "Gouirand's voice is hypnotic and potent."—Natalie Eilbert "Hers is a new music, indeed a new order of language altogether.—Richard Howard Poetry.